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Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: CC2911BD | The Criterion Collection | (disc)CC2908BD | The Criterion Collection | (boxed set)Language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 933.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]Edition: Blu-ray special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9781681434667
1681434660

Related works:

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Hervey, Harry, 1900-1951. Shanghai Express

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.43/72 23

LOC classification:

PN1997 .S43 2018

Production credits:

Director of photography, Lee Garmes ; editor, Frank Sullivan ; music, Karl Hajos.

Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette.Summary: An opulent romantic adventure that focuses on a diverse group of passengers traveling by express train from Peking to Shanghai. Among them is Captain Doc Harvey, who finds himself reunited with his former lover, now an infamous adventuress who calls herself Shanghai Lily. Desire and deception follow, culminating in a tense hostage situation when their train is hijacked by a Chinese warlord.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	BLU-00305 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1605030680X

Includes a 2018 interview with film scholar Homay King on Von Sternberg's cinematic impressions of China and the actress Ana May Wong.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1932.

Title from title screen ; crew credits partially from boxed set's accompanying book.

Based on the story by Harry Hervey.

Issued in a boxed set: Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood, which includes an accompanying book (80 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm).

Full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio).

Blu-ray; region A; 1080p high definition; LPCM 1.0.

This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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