"Mystery-lure of the Far East!" 25 December 1941 Drama 99 mins
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
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Victor Mature as Doctor Omar
Ona Munson as 'Mother' Gin Sling
Gene Tierney as Victoria Charteris (aka "Poppy Smith")
Walter Huston as Sir Guy Charteris
Phyllis Brooks as Dixie Pomeroy
Albert Bassermann as Van Elst
Maria Ouspenskaya as The Amah
Eric Blore as Caesar Hawkins
Ivan Lebedeff as Boris
Mike Mazurki as The Coolie
Clyde Fillmore as Percival Montgomery Howe
Grayce Hampton as Lady Blessington
Rex Evans as The Counselor
Mikhail Rasumny as The Appraiser
Michael Dalmatoff as The Bartender
Marcel Dalio as The Master of the Spinning Wheel
Paul Ivano Director of Photography
John Colton Theatre Play
Josef von Sternberg Adaptation
Richard Hageman Original Music Composer
Sam Winston Editor
Arnold Pressburger Producer
Josef von Sternberg Director
Josef von Sternberg Writer
Geza Herczeg Writer
Karl Vollmöller Writer
Albert de Courville Producer
James M. Cain Writer
Boris Leven Art Direction
Jules Furthman Writer
John London Second Assistant Director
Tensão em Shanghai Trailer
I misteri di Shangai Trailer
Aconteceu em Shanghai Trailer
Sweden 19 April 1943
United States 15 January 1942
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Film Noir of the Week with Gene Tierney
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Synopsis: GENE TIERNEY STARS AS POPPY A GIRL DOOMED BY HER LOVE OF LIFE AND LAUGHTER. THE BACKGROUND AND SETTING OF THIS FILM ...
A little known but very good Film Noir with Gene Tierney Walter Huston and Victor Mature The Shanghai Gesture (1941) is a very exciting must-see film.
Victoria (Gene Tierney) entra nel locale di Gin Sling.
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01 July 1941
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones.
01 January 1941
“During the Second World War, blackout regulations were imposed to make it harder for enemy aircraft to find their targets over Britain.
04 February 1941
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps.
04 July 1941
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands.
10 November 1941
Julius Berge has an advertising firm in Stockholm together with his wife Sonja. The man with the ideas is their colleague Kurt Dal, who used to be engaged to Sonja.
24 May 1941
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27 August 1941
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07 November 1941
In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her.
26 September 1941
When his car breaks down out in the country, Sniffles the mouse takes shelter in an old mill, where he meets up with "Batty," a non-stop-talking little bat who later save Sniffles from a hungry cat.
12 April 1941
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10 January 1941
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1941 United Artists, Arnold Pressburger Films.
