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Shanghai Express

Screening on Film
Recently Restored
Directed by Josef von Sternberg.
With Anna May Wong, Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland.
US, 1932, 35mm, color, 80 min.
Print source: UCLA

In Josef von Sternberg’s classic film, Wong and Dietrich are notorious women of the night whose train is hijacked by rebel Chinese. Wong’s cool character remains aloof to snubs by her fellow passengers, all of whose lives she saves. 

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