Directed by:
Josef von SternbergScreenplay:
Jules FurthmanComposer:
W. Franke HarlingCast:
Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, Lawrence Grant, Louise Closser Hale, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Willie Fung (more)Plots(1)
Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make the trip take more than three days. The British Army doctor, Donald Harvey, knew Lil before she became a famous "coaster." A fellow passenger defines a coaster as "a woman who lives by her wits along the China coast." When Chinese guerillas stop the train, Dr. Harvey is selected as the hostage. Lil saves him, but can she make him believe that she really hasn't changed from the woman he loved five years before? (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Marlene Dietrich
German Empire
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Clive Brook
UK
Best movies:
Underworld (1927)
Paramount on Parade (1930)
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Anna May Wong
USA
Best movies:
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Outside the Law (1920)
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Warner Oland
Sweden
Best movies:
Dishonored (1931)
Paramount on Parade (1930)
Werewolf of London (1935)
Eugene Pallette
USA
Best movies:
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Lawrence Grant
UK
Best movies:
Ninotchka (1939)
Lost Horizon (1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Louise Closser Hale
USA
Best movies:
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Duck Soup (1933)
Movie Crazy (1932)
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Best movies:
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
The Front Page (1931)
Willie Fung
China
Best movies:
Lost Horizon (1937)
China Seas (1935)
The Road to Mandalay (1926)
Emile Chautard
France
Best movies:
Design for Living (1933)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Seventh Heaven (1927)
Forrester Harvey
Ireland
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
Rebecca (1940)
Captain Blood (1935)
Victor Wong
USA
Best movies:
King Kong (1933)
Lost Horizon (1937)
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Claude King
UK
Best movies:
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
If I Were King (1938)
Chung Wong
USA
Best movies:
The Call of the Wild (1935)
Barbary Coast (1935)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Miki Morita
Japan
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
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Leonard Carey
UK
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Rebecca (1940)
Herbert Evans
UK
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
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Jack Deery
Australia
Best movies:
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