The Shanghai Gesture
1941 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Bored good girl Gene Tierney goes looking for thrills in Shanghai – and winds up in Mother Gin Sling’s gambling palace, a bizarre, alternate reality that could only exist in the mind of director Josef von Sternberg. Look for Victor Mature sipping martinis at the bar as the enigmatic "Doctor Omar" along with Walter Huston, Maria Ouspenskaya and Mike Mazurki. An opium fever dream of a movie. Now if only places like this existed in the real world when you need an after-hours drink … !
Direction Josef von Sternberg
Cast Gene Tierney · Walter Huston · Victor Mature · Ona Munson · Eric Blore · Maria Ouspenskaya · Phyllis Brooks · Albert Basserman · Mike Mazurki
Soundtrack Richard Hageman
Screenplay Josef von Sternberg · Jules Furthman · Karl Vollmuller · Geza Herczeg · John Colton
Cinematography Paul Ivano
Original title The Shanghai Gesture
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