Storyline

Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lily is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make the trip take more than three days. The British Army doctor, Donald Harvey, knew Lily before she became a famous "coaster." A fellow passenger defines a coaster as "a woman who lives by her wits along the China coast." When Chinese guerrillas stop the train, Dr. Harvey is selected as the hostage. Lily saves him, but can she make him believe that she really hasn't changed from the woman he loved five years before?—Dale O'Connor

Plot Keywords

physician, prostitute, general, woman, spy, old flame, tense, melodramatic, peking, train station, train, shanghai, civil wars, revolution, prostitution, espionage, hostage situation, rape, pursuit, transformation, 1930s

Short Review

Nothing in an admirable film is better than the first meeting between Lily [played by Marlene Dietrich] and Hue Fei (Miss Anna May Wong).

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