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West Of Shanghai

1937, Movie, NR, 65 mins

West Of Shanghai: Review

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Karloff stars in this third remake of the Porter Emerson Browne play which had been filmed silently in 1923, then again in 1930, both under the title THE BAD MAN. While those two were set in Mexico with a bandit named Pancho Lopez as the kind-hearted title character, WEST OF SHANGHAI tried to capitalize on a rising interest in the East because of the Sino-Japanese war and transposed the story to that area. Karloff is Gen. Wu Yen Fang, "the White Tiger," a bandit general who controls much of northern China. He takes over the village in which Oliver and Roberts are fighting against some greedy Americans who want to foreclose on Oliver's oil interests. What's more, Oliver's sweetheart, Roberts, is the estranged wife of Cortez, one of the Americans. Karloff, remembering that Oliver had once saved his life, has his vile nemesis killed, an action which brings the government down on him. Karloff's future is a firing squad, but he willingly faces the gun barrels, knowing that Oliver and Roberts will end up husband and wife. An attempt to spruce up the Chinese backgrounds is only moderately successful, but at least they used actual Chinese extras, not a common practice at the time. leave a comment
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