Rent The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
3.4 of 5 from 55 ratings
1h 38min
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- Synopsis:
- This is the carefully crafted story of a young girls slide into decadence in old Shanghai, China. Gene Tierney stars as Poppy a girl doomed by her love of life and laughter. The background and setting of this film successfully evokes a bygone East with its colonial traces. Walter Houston ably plays a worldly Sir Guy Charteris with Victor Mature as Dr. Omar and a fine supporting cast that includes Maria Ouspenskaya and Mike Mazurki. This is the Hollywood dream factory at it's very best in this underrated masterpiece that takes the viewer into the mysteries of the orient, with it's character, it's charms, and dangerous vices.
- Actors:
- Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Ona Munson, Phyllis Brooks, Albert Bassermann, Maria Ouspenskaya, Eric Blore, Ivan Lebedeff, Mike Mazurki, Clyde Fillmore, Grayce Hampton, Rex Evans, Mikhail Rasumny, Michael Dalmatoff
- Directors:
- Josef Von Sternberg
- Producers:
- Arnold Pressburger
- Writers:
- Josef Von Sternberg, Geza Herczeg, Jules Furthman, John Colton, James M. Cain, Karl Vollmoller
- Others:
- Richard Hageman, Boris Leven
- Studio:
- Cornerstone
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
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Reviews (1) of The Shanghai Gesture
A mad, intoxicating brew - The Shanghai Gesture review by NP
A truly extraordinary, demented, delirious film. Aside from Lynch, Sternberg may be the best filmmaker at realising the quality of a nightmare on screen. The cutting between ever more dissolute and amoral characters exchanging enigmatic but unmistakably loaded glances is used to alternately erotic and sinister effect; the somnambulant pacing imbues events with an intoxicating air of fatalism, as if all the players in this murky, orientalist underworld are already members of the undead, doomed to enact their private obsessions to their undoing.
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