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...screen or between book covers than on the stage. An ex-husband of a leering opera singer assembles her and three of his marital successors in his Lake Tahoe hunting lodge. Actor William Harrigan, a younger, sleeker, slightly more occidental Chan than cinema's Warner Oland, gets a head start when he is added to the party, to find out what happened to a son whom the host believes the singer bore him. The femme fatale is shot almost under the inspector's eyes, but an airplane crash occurring simultaneously outside creates confusion. After more shooting has reduced...
...manages to give it pathos and simplicity. Tom Lee is Ramon Novarro with his sideburns shaved off far above his ears. The rest of a strikingly Caucasian cast plays in the tradition for oriental melodrama-keeping the right hand in the left coat sleeve and saying little. Warner Oland as the Chinese gambler seems most at home in his surroundings. He gives out a few aphorisms left over from his performances as Charlie Chan and wears his hair in a braid so long that it serves as a queue for the most exciting scene in the picture-when Helen Hayes...
...brave English breast of her old love, Captain Harvey, played by Clive Brook, surgeon in the service of Her Majesty. The action revolves around this pair, together with the machinations of the somewhat too facile and too evil Mr. Chang, who is none other than the inevitable Warner Oland, again gone Oriental. Shanghai Lily demands the faith of Harvey and the picture ends as she is getting it in such a fashion as to leave little doubt of its genuineness...
...save the man she loves has occurred so frequently in the cinema that it can be regarded as a more rigid pillar of the industry than Mr. Zukor, Mr. Lasky or Mr. Hertz. But Shanghai Express is" a picture of the new school, and when Marlene Dietrich promises Warner Oland to visit him at his castle if he will refrain from destroying Clive Brook's eyesight with a red hot poker, you will not find the situation banal...
...mutilate him for being rude when the "coaster" makes her proposition. She has known the surgeon intimately in the distant past, and having met him again is hoping to reform for his sake, but ready not to do so if this will benefit him more. Fortunately, Mr. Chang (Warner Oland) has behaved badly toward the Chinese trollop (Anna May Wong), who solves the dilemma by planting a dagger in his back...