"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.
A Noirvember review of Josef von Sternberg's "The Shanghai Gesture" starring Gene Tierney Ona Munson Phyllis Brooks Walter Huston and Victor Mature.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1941:
23 May 1941
This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are times when all four of the animal's feet are off the ground.
01 April 1941
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
17 January 1941
When old rancher Cordoba's grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.
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.
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.
28 March 1941
The story of a rich man's son who has just reached the age of adolescence. With his money and good looks, he starts out to conquer the world, especially the feminine world thinking he is the master of everything because of his financial and social standing.
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.
24 May 1941
Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.
18 April 1941
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems.
03 September 1941
The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone in a fishermen's village.
15 November 1941
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
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