“It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily,” purrs Marlene Dietrich to old flame Captain Harvey (Clive Brook) in this exquisitely lurid melodrama, set on a train en route from Peking to Shanghai. The reunited couple's dubious assortment of travelling companions includes Hui Fei (Anna May Wong), a prostitute looking to marry, and the surreptitious Henry Chang (Warner Oland), secretly a revolutionary leader. When their journey aboard von Sternberg's “disorient express” is derailed by the lecherous Chang's revolutionary cadres, both Lily and Hui Fei become objects of his unwanted attention. Lee Garmes' images of von Sternberg's overheated fantasy China won him an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. (Chris Gehman, Cinematheque Ontario)
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