Shanghai Express

The fourth of the Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich collaborations (following THE BLUE ANGEL, MOROCCO, and DISHONORED), SHANGHAI EXPRESS is a mystical and exotic story of love and destruction, a film for which both star and director became legends. The film begins at the Peking Railroad as China's great train, the Shanghai Express, is being boarded and loaded with baggage. En route to Shanghai is a mixed assortment of characters, including Dietrich, a lady of questionable reputation known as "the White Flower of the Chinese coast;" Clive Brook, a British Medical Corps officer; Warner Oland, a shady half-caste merchant with a penchant for carrying a cane; and Ann...