Shanghai Express (1932) - (Movie Clip) I Have No Friends At All

Shanghai Express (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Both Their Souls Are Rotten

Pompous clergyman Carmichael (Lawrence Grant) unloads on Brit military doctor Harvey (Clive Brook) about Hui Fei (Anna May Wong) and Magdalen (Marlene Dietrich, a.k.a. Shanghai Lily), whose subsequent chat suggests a complex history, early on the trip in Shanghai Express, 1932.

Shanghai Express (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Everything But A Turkish Bath

Terrific hubbub, Joseph von Sternberg directing and introducing Anna May Wong, Louise Closser Hale and fussy Lawrence Grant, then star Marlene Dietrich, mysterious Warner Oland, and uniformed “Doc,” (Clive Brook), all departing “Peiping,” in Paramount’s Shanghai Express, 1932.

Shanghai Express (1932) -- (Movie Clip) The Most Respectable People

The train stalled by city hassles, first Doc (Clive Brook) then parson Carmichael (Lawrence Grant) visit similarly-employed Magdalen (Marlene Dietrich) and Hui Fei (Anna May Wong), then Mrs. Haggerty (Louise Closser Hale) misreads the situation, in Joseph von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express, 1932.

Shanghai Express (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Wouldn't Have Bobbed My Hair

Possibly the most emphatic scene of the picture by director Joseph von Sternberg in displaying his mastery of the attributes of Marlene Dietrich, as Shanghai Lily, revealing her relations with British military doctor Harvey (Clive Brook), off the back of the train, in Shanghai Express, 1932.