Top billed cast

1. 

   Marlene Dietrich

   Shanghai Lily

2. 

   Clive Brook

   Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey

3. 

   Anna May Wong

   Hui Fei

4. 

   Warner Oland

   Mr. Henry Chang

5. 

   Eugene Pallette

   Sam Salt

6. 

   Lawrence Grant

   Reverend Carmichael

7. 

   Louise Closser Hale

   Mrs. Haggerty

8. 

   Gustav von Seyffertitz

   Eric Baum

9. 

   Émile Chautard

   Major Lenard

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-07-08

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 she is still a selfish woman quite capable of doing whatever is necessary to look after number one. That view changes when the train is stopped by guerrillas and he is taken hostage. With "Chang" (Warner Oland) now in charge, things are a great deal more perilous for everyone and "Lily" has to use all...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

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