Shanghai Express
Many Men Had Loved Her -- but only one had been loved in return !
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DVD-R Details
- 4 X 3 ASPECT RATIO
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 1, 2014
- Originally Released: 1932
- Label: Universal
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marlene Dietrich & Clive Brook | |
Directed by | Josef von Sternberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
The finished product is an example of what can be done with a personality and photogenic face such as Marlene Dietrich possesses to circumvent a trashy story.
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Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Reportedly the top-grossing film of its year, this finds the actress cast as a promiscuous woman who utters the immortal line, "It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."
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Creative Loafing
Shanghai Express is a picture of the new school, and when Marlene Dietrich promises Warner Oland to visit him at his castle if he will refrain from destroying Clive Brook's eyesight with a red hot poker, you will not find the situation banal.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 3.5/4 --
...a career in a close-up.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 3.5/4 --
a marvelous cinematic fantasy, easily the best of the six films Josef von Sternberg produced with star Marlene Dietrich for Paramount between 1930 and 1935.
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Q Network Film Desk
The alibi that the film is 'just melodrama' is puerile.
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The New Masses
More action oriented than the other Dietrich-Sternberg films, this 1932 production is nevertheless one of the most elegantly styled.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
One of the most famous and influential star-director collaborations in the history of cinema, Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg made seven features together which immortalized the actress as a glamorous and enigmatic movie siren while confirming the directors reputation as a supreme stylist of mood, atmosphere and eroticism through his dazzling command of the medium. Set against the backdrop of a Chinese civil war, SHANGHAI EXPRESS is an opulent romantic adventure that focuses on a diverse group of passengers traveling by express train from Peking to Shanghai. Among them is Captain Doc Harvey (Clive Brook), who finds himself, reunited with his former lover, now an infamous adventuress who calls herself Shanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich). Desire and deception follow, culminating in a tense hostage situation when their train is hijacked by a Chinese warlord.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 6,670
- UPC: 025192139659
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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