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"The Shanghai Gesture confronts issues of women's rights, the sex trade, child abuse/slavery, and what happens when one country imposes its culture upon another." "It takes place in China in the roaring twenties when Shanghai was a truly cosmopolitan city filled with Russian refugees, its people exploited by opium traders and adventurers from ...
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The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 American film noir directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, and Ona Munson. It is based on a Broadway play of the same name by John Colton, which was adapted for the screen by Sternberg and produced by Arnold Pressburger for United Artists.
The Shanghai Gesture: A Play. John Colton. Boni and Liveright, 1926 - American drama - 256 pages. The story centers around a madam who runs a Shanghai brothel, a British businessman,...
The Shanghai Gesture. Unknown Binding. In the internationally acclaimed author’s first novel since Do Everything in the Dark, Gary Indiana applies his prickly wit, nihilistic vision, and utterly original voice to this side-splitting spin on Fu Manchu.A mysterious bout of narcolepsy has overtaken the seaside hamlet of Land’s End, a funk ...
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The story centers around a madam who runs a Shanghai brothel, a British businessman, and the assorted and powerful Chinese and foreign businessmen and politicians of the city. This play...
The Shanghai Gesture ★★½ 1942. A wildly baroque, subversive melodrama. An English financier tries to close a gambling den, only to be blackmailed by the female proprietor—who tells him not only is the man's daughter heavily indebted to her, but that she is the wife he abandoned long ago.
May 23, 2024 · The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 American film noir directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, and Ona Munson. It is based on a Broadway play of the same name by John Colton, which was adapted for the screen by Sternberg and produced by Arnold Pressburger.
