In Schanghai betreibt die Drachenlady "Mutter" Gin Sling ein Spielkasino für wohlhabende Gönner, stößt aber mit einem einflussreichen Landentwickler zusammen, der sie aus dem Geschäft dränge... Alles lesenIn Schanghai betreibt die Drachenlady "Mutter" Gin Sling ein Spielkasino für wohlhabende Gönner, stößt aber mit einem einflussreichen Landentwickler zusammen, der sie aus dem Geschäft drängen will.In Schanghai betreibt die Drachenlady "Mutter" Gin Sling ein Spielkasino für wohlhabende Gönner, stößt aber mit einem einflussreichen Landentwickler zusammen, der sie aus dem Geschäft drängen will.
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Lovely Gene Tierney transcending her enchanting beauty showing that looks aren´t enough. Victor Mature also playing someone of great charm and little character. I like how the beautiful leads aren´t the heroes. No one is! Ona Munson - so amazing and otherwordly! Where are the strong character parts for women like that today??
The sumptuous sets, everything steeped in mystery. What an atmosphere von Sternberg created...! I loved it! I want so see more films like this and I could see it again. Is it available on video?
Thank you Hollywood!
"The Shanghai gesture" is an unclassifiable work: a film noir?a melodrama?Most likely an extravaganza ,an incredible exotic story which smells of the intoxicating perfume of poisonous flowers.The gigantic dive looks like a cobweb which the high priestess Mother Gin Sling spins ."Why not Mother Whiskey Soda? " Tierney asks.
All the characters are not what they seem ,they just pretend.Tierney has two names (one of them is the well-chosen "Poppy") and we only learn her real identity in the second half in a scene which seems completely "out of the movie".Mature is Doctor Omar ,doctor of nothing! Even the women in the cages and the sailors who buy them just pretend .Nothing is real.
Tierney's downfall is depicted in lavish detail:from the elegant woman of the beginning to the wreck Gin Sling invites to her Chinese New Year feast .Directing is absolutely breathtaking,when the camera circles around the dive where a cast of thousands -Sternberg even pays a tribute to the extras in the cast and credits,which is rare ,to my knowledge ,the first and last time it had been made-surrounds the heroine ,or in the final scenes ,when the shots merge with the firecrackers of the New Year.
"The Shanghai gesture" may be a guilty pleasure.But this kind of pleasure ,I ask for more!
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- WissenswertesThe last Hollywood film that Josef von Sternberg saw through to completion--he was fired from Macao (1952) and Düsenjäger (1957).
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'Mother' Gin Sling: [of an ordinance that would outlaw her establishment] I've lived by my own ordinances for a long time now, and I intend to disregard all others.
- Crazy CreditsOpening credits: "Years ago a speck was torn away from the mystery of China and became Shanghai. A distorted mirror of problems that beset the world today, it grew into a refuge for people who wished to live between the lines of laws and customs - - a modern Tower of Babel. Neither Chinese, European, British nor American it maintained itself for years in the ever increasing whirlpool of war. Its destiny, at present, is in the lap of the Gods - - as is the destiny of all cities. Our story has nothing to do with the present."
- VerbindungenFeatured in La société du spectacle (1974)
- SoundtracksI'm Always Chasing Rainbows
(1918) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Carroll
Lyrics by Joseph McCarthy
Played on piano by Rex Evans at Gin Sling's dinner party
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- Budget
- 1.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Laufzeit
- 1 Std. 35 Min.(95 min)
- Farbe
- Seitenverhältnis
- 1.37 : 1