Shanghai Express (1932)

Movie Details

Original Title Shanghai Express

Original Language EN

Status Released

Popularity 1.2

Cast

Marlene Dietrich

Shanghai Lily

Popularity: 6.6

Clive Brook

Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey

Popularity: 1.8

Anna May Wong

Hui Fei

Popularity: 3.6

Warner Oland

Mr. Henry Chang

Popularity: 2.0

Eugene Pallette

Sam Salt

Popularity: 2.5

Lawrence Grant

Reverend Carmichael

Popularity: 1.2

Louise Closser Hale

Mrs. Haggerty

Popularity: 0.7

Gustav von Seyffertitz

Eric Baum

Popularity: 0.4

Émile Chautard

Major Lenard

Popularity: 0.4

George Blagoi

Minor Role (uncredited)

Popularity: 1.2

Leonard Carey

Carey (uncredited)

Popularity: 1.2

No Photo" alt="George Chung" class="cast-photo">

George Chung

Chinese Soldier (uncredited)

Popularity: 0.2

Key Crew

Director Josef von Sternberg

Screenplay Jules Furthman

Executive Producer Adolph Zukor

Editor Frank Sullivan

Production

Paramount Pictures

Videos & Trailers

AFS Essential Cinema: Shanghai Express | Presented by MUBI

Trailer

Shanghai Express (1932) trailer

Trailer

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Posters

Keywords

prostitute rape china shanghai, china rebel ex-lover insurgence chinese civil war black and white beijing, china pre-code based on short story

Reviews from TMDB

John Chard 8/10

Apr 14, 2020

When I needed your faith, you withheld it; and now, when I don't need it, and don't deserve it, you give it to me. Shanghai Express is directed by Josef von Sternberg and written by Jules Furthman (adaptation) & Harry Hervey (story). It stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brooks, Anna May Wong, Warner ... Read more

CinemaSerf 7/10

Jul 8, 2024

Amidst the civil war in 1930s China, a train is travelling from Peking to Shanghai carrying a disparate group of passengers that includes the infamous "Shanghai Lily" (Marlene Dietrich) and "Doc" (Clive Brook) who is on his way to perform surgery on a mandarin. The two have a past, and he reckons sh ... Read more