Shanghai Express
1932
| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: February 12, 1932 |
Starring:
Anna May Wong, Clive Brook, Emile Chautard, Eugene Pallette, George Blagoi, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Lawrence Grant, Louise Closser Hale, Marlene Dietrich, Warner Oland
Summary:
A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.
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Great Hollywood kitsch, supremely visualized by Von Sternberg and cinematographer Lee Garmes. [07 Nov 2003, p.C6]
Express is 80 tight minutes of railroad intrigue, an Oscar winner for cinematography (there's none better) and the film with the enduring line: "It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily." [22 Oct 1993, p.3D]
Style always outweighed substance in the atmospheric films of Josef von Sternberg, and this 1932 feature is no exception. [26 Nov 1993, p.32]
Of all the Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich films, this Oriental thriller may be the most sinfully pleasurable and amusing. [15 Sep 1991, p.6]
Josef von Sternberg, the director, has made this effort interesting through a definite command of the lens. As to plot structure and dialog, Shanghai Express runs much too close to old meller and serial themes to command real attention. 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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