El expreso de Shanghai

Título original: Shanghai Express

1932
Approved
1h 22min

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Marlene Dietrich in El expreso de Shanghai (1932)

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Una mujer reconecta con un antiguo amante durante un peligroso viaje en tren hacia Shanghai.Una mujer reconecta con un antiguo amante durante un peligroso viaje en tren hacia Shanghai.Una mujer reconecta con un antiguo amante durante un peligroso viaje en tren hacia Shanghai.

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Ganó 1 premio Óscar
- 1 premio y 2 nominaciones en total

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Marlene Dietrich

Shanghai Lily

Clive Brook

Captain Donald Harvey

Anna May Wong

Hui Fei

Warner Oland

Henry Chang

Eugene Pallette

Sam Salt

Lawrence Grant

Mr. Carmichael

Louise Closser Hale

Mrs. Haggerty

Gustav von Seyffertitz

Eric Baum

Emile Chautard

Major Lenard

Sami Ayanoglu

Dr. Professor Jack
(sin acreditar)

George Blagoi

Minor Role
(sin acreditar)

Leonard Carey

Carey
(sin acreditar)

George Chung

Chinese Soldier
(sin acreditar)

Wong Chung

Chinese Officer Checking Passports
(sin acreditar)

Jack Deery

British Officer at Shanghai
(sin acreditar)

Herbert Evans

British Railway Officer
(sin acreditar)

Bess Flowers

Undetermined Secondary Role
(sin acreditar)

Willie Fung

Train Engineer
(sin acreditar)

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Scarface, el terror del hampa

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Ámame esta noche

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Barricade

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Curiosidades
The extras in the film mostly speak Cantonese - a Chinese dialect used mainly in southern China. If the film were to be more accurate, the extras would speak Mandarin, but most Chinese residents in the Los Angeles area (who worked as film extras) spoke Cantonese, necessitating Josef von Sternberg use Cantonese. Even so, Cantonese was one of the main languages of China at the time. It was nearly the national language, losing to Mandarin by only one vote in 1912. It was unsettled in popular culture during the 1930s. https://www.scmp.com/article/694592/cantonese-almost-became-official-language?campaign=694592&module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article

Pifias
The film is set in northern China (Peking to Shanghai). The government and warlord soldiers are speaking Taishanese, which is a southern Chinese dialect not generally spoken in northern China. The northern dialects of Mandarin Chinese (a Beijing dialect) and/or Shanghainese would be spoken instead.

Citas
Mr. Henry Chang: All the money in the world can't wipe out his insult to me.
[Shanghai Lily tries to shoot him]
Mr. Henry Chang: You only had my interest before. Now you have my admiration. I could love a woman like you.
Shanghai Lily: You made me an offer to leave with you. Does it still hold good?
Mr. Henry Chang: I wouldn't trust you from here to the door. What assurance have I you won't trick me?
Shanghai Lily: I give you my word of honor.
Mr. Henry Chang: A man is a fool to trust any woman, but I believe a word of honor would mean something to you.

Versiones alternativas
Comments in the AFI Catalogue suggest the credits were changed when re-released in 1935. According to the Catalogue, the original print referred to Harry Herveys work as a novel. In the viewed print on TCM, the onscreen credit was "story." The print was clearly a re-released print because of the PCA certificate number listed onscreen; such numbers were not issued until 1934. It is not known what other changes were made, if any, but the print ran only 82 minutes, suggesting some additional editing had been done.

Conexiones
Featured in La huella del pasado (1935)

Banda sonora
Shanghai Express Prelude
(uncredited)
Music by Rudolph G. Kopp
Played during the opening credits

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A very good movie.

Many consider "The Shanghai Express" the best von Sternberg/ Dietrich film. Perhaps. I certainly agree that it is a very good movie. The story is a bit trivial: two lovers meet again after five years. They were separated due to the lack of faith he had in her. This film is a journey. In fact, two kinds of journeys: a physical one, since the set is a moving train, and a psychological one, since during this journey Captain Harvey (Clive Brook) gains fate, essential to a love relationship. The train movements seem to indicate the attraction Captain Harvey and Shanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich) feel for each other. This movie gives us one of the most beautiful images in movie history: Dietrich in the dark, smoking a cigarette, with the famous light that gave her that famous "butterfly shadow".