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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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Books. 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 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, by John Colton & John D. Williams. Boni & Liveright, NYC, 1926. CLOTH. 256 Pages. 1st Edition. GOOD++ WITH NO JACKET. Interior free of marks. VERY SCARCE. Seller Inventory # 000017013. Contact seller. Report this item
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.
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.
The Shanghai Gesture: A Play - Ebook written by John Colton. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark...
