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In the original play by John Colton, the action takes place in the heart of a "mess" held by Mother Goddam , who not only indulged in prostitution, is also drugged and nymphomaniac. Many adaptations of the original work were therefore rejected by the Hays Office, and discouraged the studios put the film into production. The Chinese consulate issued
also objected to the way Chinese were portrayed in the play.
is probably true, but never reached Josef von Sternberg has other peaks that his adventure film with Marlene Dietrich! However, the filmmaker returns to itself, little by little, especially with "The Shanghai Gesture" which is in the exact lineage of "The Scarlet Empress" and "Shanghai Express", ie in delirium Baroque, with an oriental city completely reconstructed in the studio, with game rooms and dens and opium women in cages that they sell the sailors! In the role of Poppy, a character more or less masochistic object of the vengeance of a nightclub hostess, Gene Tierney is a breathtaking beauty in an exotic artificial von Sternberg, which only holds the secret! This strange universe became a cult since ...


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