Shanghai Express

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drama film film romantic drama film

Shanghai Express is a 1932 pre-Code Hollywood drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, best known for its atmospheric cinematography and starring performances by Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong.

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	drama film → film → romantic drama film →
artDirectionBy	Hans Dreier NERFINISHED → Travis Banton →
awardReceived	Academy Award for Best Cinematography →
awardReceivedBy	Lee Garmes NERFINISHED →
basedOn	Sky Over China → short story by Harry Hervey →
cinematographyBy	Lee Garmes NERFINISHED →
costumeDesignBy	Travis Banton →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Josef von Sternberg →
distributor	Paramount Pictures →
editedBy	Frank Tuttle →
featuredInFilmographyOf	Josef von Sternberg → Marlene Dietrich →
filmFormat	black-and-white →
genre	drama → romance →
hasIMDbId	tt0023458 →
leadCharacter	Hui Fei → Shanghai Lily →
MPAARating	pre-Code →
musicBy	Ralph Rainger → W. Franke Harling →
nominatedFor	Academy Award for Best Picture →
notableFor	Anna May Wong performance → Marlene Dietrich performance → atmospheric cinematography →
originalLanguage	English →
partOf	pre-Code Hollywood →
portrays	interracial tensions in China → themes of sacrifice and redemption →
producer	Adolph Zukor → Ernst Lubitsch →
productionCompany	Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED →
releaseDate	1932-02-12 →
releaseYear	1932 →
runtimeMinutes	82 →
screenwriter	Jules Furthman →
setInPeriod	Chinese Civil War era →
setting	train between Beijing and Shanghai →
starring	Anna May Wong → Clive Brook → Eugene Pallette → Lawrence Grant → Marlene Dietrich → Warner Oland NERFINISHED →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Anna May Wong → Jules Furthman →	notableWork
Wong Liu Tsong →	appearedIn
Chinese American cinema →	notableFilm
Anna May Wong →	starredIn