Shanghai Express
- Director: Josef von Sternberg
- Writer: Jules Furthman, Harry Hervey
- Producer: Adolph Zukor
CGiii Comment
"Many Men Had Loved Her -- but only one had been loved in return !"
Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lily 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 Lily 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 guerrillas stop the train, Dr. Harvey is selected as the hostage. Lily saves him, but can she make him believe that she really hasn't changed from the woman he loved five years before?
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Cast & Characters
Marlene Dietrich (as Shanghai Lily)
Clive Brook (as Captain Donald Harvey)
Anna May Wong (as Hui Fei)
Warner Oland (as Henry Chang)
Eugene Pallette (as Sam Salt)
Lawrence Grant (as Mr. Carmichael)
Louise Closser Hale (as Mrs. Haggerty)
Gustav von Seyffertitz (as Eric Baum)
Emile Chautard (as Major Lenard)
George Blagoi (as Minor Role (uncredited))
Leonard Carey (as Carey (uncredited))
George Chung (as Chinese Soldier (uncredited))
Wong Chung (as Chinese Officer Checking Passports (uncredited))
Jack Deery (as British Officer at Shanghai (uncredited))
Herbert Evans (as British Railway Officer (uncredited))
Willie Fung (as Train Engineer (uncredited))
Tom Gubbins (as Chinese Officer (uncredited))
Forrester Harvey (as Peiping Ticket Agent (uncredited))
Claude King (as Mr. Albright (uncredited))
James B. Leong (as A Rebel (uncredited))
Ura Mita (as Chinese Woman (uncredited))
Miki Morita (as Chinese Officer (uncredited))
Minoru Nishida (as Li Fung (uncredited))
Victor Wong (as Chinese Officer (uncredited))