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The Shanghai Gesture

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The Shanghai Gesture
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NR,1hr 37min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1941
Director:
Josef von Sternberg
Distributor:
Image Entertainment
Starring:
Gene Tierney, Victor Mature, Ona Munson  ...more
Synopsis: Josef von Sternberg made his first return to exotic Shanghai since 1932's Shanghai Express in this baroque conflagration, based on a 1925 play by John Colton that required 30 revisions before it was sufficiently sanitized to pass muster with Hays Office censors. The film takes place in the gambling den of Mother Gin Sling (Ona Munson), who finds her casino threatened with closing by stuffed shirt English financier Sir Guy Charteris (Walter Huston). Gin Sling knows that the key to keeping her casino ... Full Synopsis
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Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review
Although not much liked in its day, Joseph Von Sternberg's final great film is a "must" for anyone sharing the director's appetite for the sensually exotic. It doesn't really make much difference at this late date that most of playwright John Colton's then highly censurable characters have been severely watered down; that Colton's brothel owner, Madam Goddam, has become a gambling establishment proprietor ... Full Review
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Gene Tierney
Poppy Charteris
Victor Mature
Dr. Omar
Ona Munson
Mother Gin Sling
Walter Huston
Sir Guy Charteris
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