Shanghai Express
This film, starring Marlene Dietrich, was one of the great hit movies of the early 1930s, featuring a sultry Marlene saying: "It too-ook more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."
In Shanghai, it caused an outrage with its portrayal of Chinese bandit revolutionaries. On first night, the Chinese actor Hong Shen leapt onto the stage to stop the film, and there were demonstrations outside the cinema.
The film's director Josef von Sternberg was warned that he would be arrested if he ever came to China.
The plot of the film:
The train is heading for Shanghai with the Chinese civil war as a backdrop. The passengers include the notorious Shanghai Lily (Marlene) and a British Army doctor, Donald Harvey, who knew Lil before she became a famous "coaster", a woman of a certain reputation on the China Coast.
Chinese guerillas stop the train and Dr. Harvey is taken hostage. Lily saves him, but can she convince him that she is still the woman he loved five years before?
