"Mystery-lure of the Far East!" 25 December 1941 Drama, Crime, Mystery 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
Germany 03 October 1971
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.
A Noirvember review of Josef von Sternberg's "The Shanghai Gesture" starring Gene Tierney Ona Munson Phyllis Brooks Walter Huston and Victor Mature.
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08 December 1941
A man murdered at the Saint's doorstep manages to utter a few words to Simon Templar before he dies, sending him off to the quaint resort village of Baycombe where he confronts crime mastermind 'The Tiger' and his gang as they plan to smuggle gold bullion out of the country.
01 February 1941
Patrik Bergman returns to Stockholm after a couple of years. He had to leave the capital when he was the suspect of a bank robbery.
24 October 1941
On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours. Sour old Mr.
22 May 1941
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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.
19 December 1941
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values.
24 May 1941
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26 December 1941
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01 July 1941
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