Shanghai Express Comments

  • Earl 2023-09-30 00:30:03

    Marlene Dietrich is a diamond and Anna May Wong is a pearl. Others become irrelevant at...

  • Theron 2023-09-26 11:17:20

    If you want to talk about it, it's too long to be separated for five years. The train shook so violently that the cigarette could hardly be caught between the fingers. Shanghai Lily, why don't we start...

  • Abel 2023-07-10 05:11:31

    There are still traces of the transition from silent films to sound films (audio-visual means, dialogue rhythm, etc.), and the photography is soft and beautiful, but this story is indeed relatively small, especially compared with Sternberg's works in his early...

  • Gail 2023-06-28 03:49:47

    Too ugly to provoke, the plot is ridiculous. The story takes place in the north, but the Chinese people in it all have an accent similar to Cantonese on the west bank of the Pearl River. The image of the warlord villain played by Oland (I don't know if there is a yellow face) is like a fat version of Fu Manchu. It seems that the two-stroked beard is standard for the stereotyped image of "Chinaman". It's probably as uncomfortable to watch as an Arab is to see Anthony Quinn as an Arab, the...

  • Leora 2023-06-15 19:49:50

    How did she manage to change into N evening dresses with so little luggage on the train? If the plot was set in a completely fictional country, it would still be quite an "exotic" romance. As for the appearance of camels transporting goods at Beijing Railway Station, the whole of China speaks Cantonese with a strange accent... It fits the setting of a fictional...

  • Candice 2023-06-09 18:49:13

    Made in Chinatown? Stupid Cantonese! The two legendary women are not as powerful as...

  • Shanon 2023-06-03 06:09:26

    Dietrich is...

  • Jewell 2023-05-18 18:38:23

    7 points, considering that this film is too old, and it is in the exploration period of sound film, I can give this film a 7 point, but this film is not a very good-looking film, the plot is a bit thin, the first half It's a bit boring, but the second half of the film is still interesting, but the plot of the movie is still a bit unsustainable, but as a film in the groping period, the performance of this film is not bad, in fact, many movies of the same year are There is no soundtrack at all....

  • Adalberto 2023-04-12 10:16:54

    I've covered every little highway. And I've been climbing every hill. I've been looking high, and I've been looking low, looking for my Shanghai Lil. I learned to love her. The little devil was just a butterfly. But you discover something on the level, shining in her...

  • Lelah 2023-03-11 18:26:52

    Ma Lin is 31, young, looking around and looking like Leslie. The emotional interaction of the death of an old lover is so interesting. The Chinese warlords are of mixed blood, so it finally makes sense for the Americans to act. Anna May Wong is so cool! The rapist must die, no...

Extended Reading
  • Providenci 2022-07-10 23:13:19

    ruthless bitch

          The prostitute Shanghai Lily in the film does not hesitate to dedicate herself to a small warlord for her old lover. In reality, countless women dedicate themselves to many men for their men. Don't you mean bitches are ruthless?
         Mr. Liang Yuchun said: The most lovely women are the...

  • Jerrell 2022-07-10 16:58:24

    looks beautiful

    Marlene Dietrich under Steinberg's lens is the most beautiful. There is no lack of sexy and glamorous in classics. Even at the moment when love blooms, she is proud. This film seems to have become Dietrich's personal show, with different costumes and different accessories, taking turns in battle,...

Shanghai Express quotes

  • Mrs. Haggerty: I've never been so shocked in my life. I suppose the Chinese girl deserves all she's getting, but as for the other lady... Well, I'm not going to say anything. Of all the brazen creatures, playing the gramophone. Why, she's the most terrible woman I've ever met. I don't see how she can look any of us in the eye. Going off with the late Mr. Chang after the way he treated us. Bad enough she tried it before he held up the train, but after the way he tortured poor Mr. Baum...

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: Look here, Mrs. Haggerty, I think you're doing the woman an injustice. I don't know what caused her to behave that way, but I'm sure there's a whole lot more behind this than appears on the surface.

    Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey: Mr. Carmichael, when I had the pleasure of making your acquaintance yesterday, you volunteered an amazingly correct diagnosis of Shanghai Lily, and I see no reason for you to have changed it.

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: Look here, Captain Harvey, I happen to know that she prayed all night for your safety.

    Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey: I'd give anything in the world to believe the way you do, but I heard from her own lips she was leaving with Chang.

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: That's rubbish!

    Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey: I wish it were.

    Sam Salt: Defending that dame. I'm pretty liberal on the subject of betting, but I wouldn't back his viewpoint for all the rice in China.

    Mrs. Haggerty: Neither would I.

  • Reverend Mr. Carmichael: I'd like to talk to you alone.

    Shanghai Lily: I don't wish to talk to anybody.

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: I'm sorry to have to insist, but I must talk to you.

    Shanghai Lily: If you're thinking of reforming me, you might as well save yourself the trouble.

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: I'm not trying to reform you. I'm not trying to reform anybody right now. All I want is to settle something that's been puzzling me all day. Why did you decide to leave with that barbarian who was killed by her this morning?

    [Hui Fei and Carmichael exchange glances as she leaves the compartment]

    Shanghai Lily: What makes you want to know? Curiosity?

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: You prayed last night, probably for the first time in years. This morning, you were to shamelessly leave with Chang. There's something wrong there. You can't tell me that a human being can do two things like that within six hours.

    Shanghai Lily: Although it's nobody's affair but mine, I might tell you if you promise not to repeat it.

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: Of course I won't repeat it. I came in here to find out for myself. I'm not interested in the others.

    Shanghai Lily: He was going to deprive Captain Harvey of his eyesight. I had no other choice.

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: Does Captain Harvey know that?

    Shanghai Lily: Does he act as if he did?

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: He certainly does not. Despite the fact that I gave you my word not to tell anyone, I'm going to tell him this.

    Shanghai Lily: You're not going to do anything of the kind. Mr. Carmichael, it may seem odd for me to use your language, but it's purely a question of faith. You see, once upon a time we loved each other. We parted, and I threw my life away because I didn't care to bargain for love with words. I haven't changed since them, and neither has he.

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: You're still in love with him, aren't you?

    Shanghai Lily: Yes.

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: Is he still in love with you?

    Shanghai Lily: I doubt it.

    Reverend Mr. Carmichael: You're right. Love without faith, like religion without faith, doesn't amount to very much. I don't suppose I can help you.

    Shanghai Lily: No.

Shanghai Express

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Language: English,French,Cantonese,German Release date: February 12, 1932