The Shanghai Gesture
Mystery-lure of the Far East!
Overview
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
- Production
- Arnold Pressburger Films, United Artists
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Cast
Victor Mature
Doctor Omar
Ona Munson
'Mother' Gin Sling
Gene Tierney
Victoria Charteris (aka "Poppy Smith")
Walter Huston
Sir Guy Charteris
Phyllis Brooks
Dixie Pomeroy
Albert Bassermann
Van Elst
Maria Ouspenskaya
The Amah
Eric Blore
Caesar Hawkins
Ivan Lebedeff
Boris
Mike Mazurki
The Coolie
Clyde Fillmore
Percival Montgomery Howe
Grayce Hampton
Lady Blessington
Rex Evans
The Counselor
Mikhail Rasumny
The Appraiser
Marcel Dalio
The Master of the Spinning Wheel
John Abbott
Poppy's Escort
Crew
- Director
- Josef von Sternberg
- Producers
- Arnold Pressburger,Albert de Courville
- Cinematography
- Paul Ivano
- Composer
- Richard Hageman
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CinemaSerf
January 8, 2023
"Sir Guy Charteris" (Walter Huston) is an entrepreneurial British developer who has his eyes on the gin-palace of "Mother Gin Sling" (Ona Munson). The latter woman is running her successful den of iniquity and has no intention of acquiescing to the venal aspirations of her new nemesis. Determined to fight back, she enlists the help of the rather unscrupulous "Dr. Omar" (a rather mis-cast Victor Mature) to ensure that "Poppy" (Gene Tierney) - the daughter of "Charteris" - is introduced to the del…