Incident in Shanghai

1938
1h 7m

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A British nurse working in war-torn Shanghai has to rely on her estranged but still jealous husband, a surgeon, to save the life of the man she loves.A British nurse working in war-torn Shanghai has to rely on her estranged but still jealous husband, a surgeon, to save the life of the man she loves.A British nurse working in war-torn Shanghai has to rely on her estranged but still jealous husband, a surgeon, to save the life of the man she loves.

Director
- John Paddy Carstairs
Writers
- John Paddy Carstairs
- A.R. Rawlinson
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5.2/10

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Director
- John Paddy Carstairs
Writers
- John Paddy Carstairs
- A.R. Rawlinson
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Strategically posted on the walls of the Kowloon Hotel in the opening sequence are one-sheet posters for Souls at Sea (1937) and You Only Live Once (1937).

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Opening credits prologue: . . . . Operating from the International Settlement, the Raymond Jarvis Relief Unit is one of many Red Cross Organisations alleviating the suffering in war-scarred China . . . .

. . . . One of their Units has established itself in the Kiwang area, territory subjected to continual attack and counter-attack . . . .

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Referenced in Round the Film Studios: No 1: Pinewood Part 8 (1937)

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5/10

quota quickie set in shanghai

At the time this film was made the international settlement in Shanghai was much in the headlines.It was an area inhabited as a refuge by the various foreign colonialists whilst the war raged between the Chinese and the Japanese.It was shown in blockbuster scale some years ago in Empire of the Sun. Despite being made at Pinewood this is very much quota quickie territory.Patrick Barr is a wounded flier fleeing from the Japanese.He falls for the nurse treating him.Unfortunately her estranged husband is treating him and wants him out the way immediately. One can only assume that the writer couldn't work out how to get the film to run the required length as a Chinese variety show fills a few minutes.The story is clichés,and the production is rather poverty stricken but it holds the attention.