# Shanghai Express (1932)

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**Runtime**: 82 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance, War
**Directed by**: Josef von Sternberg
**Written by**: Jules Furthman, Harry Hervey
**Starring**: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, Lawrence Grant

> *Many Men Had Loved Her -- but only one had been loved in return!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The Shanghai Express dares to ask: can you find love on a train in wartime? Passengers on the titular train from Peking to Shanghai find themselves caught in the middle of the Chinese Civil War. It's a credit to the film that everyone seems so glamorous despite the circumstances.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider

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