Shanghai Express PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 29, 2007
- Originally Released: 1986
- Label: Lisa's Skus
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Yuen Biao | |
Performer: | Sammo Hung, Olivia Cheng, Eric Tsang, Ching-Ying Lam, Kenny Bee, Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Yukari Oshima, Wu Ma, Rosamund Kwan, Dick Wei, Richard Ng, Wang Lung Wei, Yasuka Kurata, Emily Chu, Wah Yuen, Hwang Jang Lee & Bolo Yeung | |
Directed by | Sammo Hung |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
It's one of Dietrich's and [von Sternberg's] finest, a kind of Grand Hotel on wheels.
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Sky Cinema
The bizarre stop-go cadences of the dialogue delivery are the most blatantly non-naturalistic element, but the overall design and dramatic pacing are equally extraordinary.
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Time Out
The film has compensating strength in the star, who photographs more beautifully than before and, though she is acted off the screen by Anna May Wong, shows herself unique in Hollywood by being majestically beautiful.
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Guardian
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Reportedly the top-grossing film of its year, this finds the actress cast as a promiscuous woman who utters the immortal line, "It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Peak Dietrich merging with peak von Sternberg... Each artist and their respective styles coming together to create something distinct and dazzling.
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Filmspotting
Rating: 3.5/4 --
a marvelous cinematic fantasy, easily the best of the six films Josef von Sternberg produced with star Marlene Dietrich for Paramount between 1930 and 1935.
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Q Network Film Desk
Product Description:
Mix the dizzy confusion of IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD with director Sammo Hung's kung-fu stylings and a mythical Chinese West complete with cowboy hats, clapboard towns, and steam locomotives and the result is SHANGHAI EXPRESS. At the center of the plot is a train loaded with wealthy passengers and a trio of Japanese hoping to smuggle an important document out of the country. The train becomes the target of a motley assortment of thieves, bandits, and ex-cons, each with their own get-rich-quick scheme. As the cops and criminals stumble over one another, the film marches steadily to its conclusion--an all-out, everyone-for-themselves battle royale. The cast is a who's who of Hong Kong comedians and stars, most associated with Golden Harvest studio. The martial arts sequences are top-notch (the acrobatic Yuen Biao nonchalantly jumps off a two-story building as if it's an everyday thing), and the plot is an object lesson in how Hong Kong directors can borrow from Hollywood to create schizophrenic, enjoyable cinema.
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- UPC: 796019802611
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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