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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Shanghai Express / a Paramount picture ; Adolf Zukor presents ; directed by Josef von Sternberg ; screen play by Jules Furthman.

Publisher, Date:

Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2012]

Description:

1 videodisc (83 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

optical digital

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Marlene Dietrich plays the notorious adventuress Shanghai Lily, who has been jilted by Captain Donald Harvey (Clive Brook). During the Chinese civil war, the couple meet on a train which is attacked by Chinese rebels. Dietrich becomes involved with a rebel leader in order to save the man she still loves.

Subjects:

Hervey, Harry, 1900-1951 -- Film adaptations.

Guerrillas -- China -- Drama.

Hostages -- China -- Drama.

Railroad travel -- China -- Drama.

Visitors, Foreign -- China -- Drama.

China -- History -- 1912-1928 -- Drama.

Genre:

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

War films.

Film adaptations.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Von Sternberg, Josef, 1894-1969, film director.

Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976, film producer.

Furthman, Jules, screenwriter.

Dietrich, Marlene, actor.

Brook, Clive, 1887-1974, actor.

Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961, actor.

Oland, Warner, 1880-1938, actor.

Pallette, Eugene, 1889-1954, actor.

Grant, Lawrence, 1869-1952, actor.

Hale, Louise Closser, 1872-1933, actor.

Seyffertitz, Gustav von, 1863-1943, actor.

Chautard, Émile, 1864-1934 actor.

Garmes, Lee, 1898-1978, director of photography.

Hervey, Harry, 1900-1951. Shanghai Express.

Paramount Publix Corporation, production company.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher, film distributor.

Other Title:

Shanghai Express (Motion picture)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1932.

Based on the story by Harry Hervey.

Photography, Lee Garmes.

Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, Lawrence Grant, Louise Closser Hale, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Emile Chautard.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; full frame (1.33:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital.

ISBN:

0025192139659

Publisher Number:

CC169837

Other Number:

794601978

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

618564

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Shanghai