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Shanghai Gesture
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5
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4.29
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| Starring |
Ona Munson  , Victor Mature, Walter Huston
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Directed by:
Josef Von Sternberg
Written by:
Josef Von Sternberg, Geza Herczeg
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| Released: |
1941 |
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| Genre: |
DRAMA
SO BAD
CONTROVERSIAL
PANNED
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
90 |
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In a low Shanghai gambling dive, Madame Gin Sling (Ona Munson) taunts her ex-husband (Walter Huston) with the degree to which their daughter (Gene Tierney, pictured) has become degraded. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| Tedious, turgid melodrama lifted to the realms of high camp by von Sternberg's visual flamboyance, a hilariously humourless script, and the lurid excesses of his cast. Boris Leven's art direction was Oscar-nominated, as was Richard Hageman's music. Now a cult film, it was not kindly treated by contemporary critics. | |
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