The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
DVDRip | Language: English | Subtitles: Spanish & French (.srt) | XviD 656x500 (4:3) | 94 min | 25.0 fps | 192 kbps | 701 Mb
Genre: Drama | RS.com
People Live in Shanghai for Many Reasons… Most of Them Bad!
Film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Victor Mature, Gene Tierney and Walter Huston.
IMDB
DVDRip | Language: English | Subtitles: Spanish & French (.srt) | XviD 656x500 (4:3) | 94 min | 25.0 fps | 192 kbps | 701 Mb
Genre: Drama | RS.com
People Live in Shanghai for Many Reasons… Most of Them Bad!
Film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Victor Mature, Gene Tierney and Walter Huston.
IMDB
An intriguing and at times surprisingly subversive film (…) Sublimely conveyed by von Sternberg, The Shanghai Gesture is proof of what Hollywood can do if it allows its talent the room to maneuver.
Josef von Sternberg's (The Scarlet Empress / The Blue Angel / The Devil is a Woman) last great Hollywood film is based on a 1925 play by John Colton that required over 30 revisions ordered by the Hays Office censors before it was deemed acceptable. In one unreleased censored version, attributed to writer Jules Furthman, the blemished noirish heroine named Mother Gin Sling is instead named Mother Goddamn and runs a brothel instead of a casino. What remains from all the cuts is the surreal baroque setting–a gesture to the descent of mankind into the bowels of the earth–a casino designed like Dante's Inferno.
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
