The Shanghai Drama
1938 film
- 27 October 1938 (1938-10-27)
Running time
The Shanghai Drama (French: Le drame de Shanghaï) is a 1938 French drama film directed by G. W. Pabst and starring Christl Mardayn, Louis Jouvet and Raymond Rouleau.[1][2] An exiled White Russian woman works as a cabaret singer in Shanghai to support her daughter through school. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Guy de Gastyne. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and on location in Saigon in French Indochina.
Cast
- Raymond Rouleau as Franchon
- Louis Jouvet as Ivan
- Christl Mardayn as Kay Murphy, cabaret singer
- Elina Labourdette as Nana, the nurse
- Valéry Inkijinoff as Black Dragon Agent
- Dorville as Bill, cabaret owner
- André Alerme as Mac Tavish
- Suzanne Desprès as Vera
- Gabrielle Dorziat as Superintendent of school
- Marcel Lupovici as Assassin for Black Dragon
- Robert Manuel as Le client attaqué
- PierreasLouis as Un marin américain
- LinhasNam as Cheng
- Foun-Sen as Wife of Black Dragon Agent
- Mila Parély as Dancing Girl
See also
- A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
- The White Countess (2005)
References
- ^ Hal Erickson (2012). "NY Times: The Shanghai Drama". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
- ^ Kennedy-Karpat p.132-33
Bibliography
- Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.
External links
- The Shanghai Drama at IMDb
- v
- t
- e
Films directed by G. W. Pabst
- The Treasure (1923)
- Countess Donelli (1924)
- Joyless Street (1925)
- Secrets of a Soul (1926)
- One Does Not Play with Love (1926)
- The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
- The Devious Path (1928)
- Pandora's Box (1929)
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
- Westfront 1918 (1930)
- Scandalous Eva (1930)
- The Threepenny Opera (1931)
- Kameradschaft (1931)
- L'Atlantide (1932)
- Don Quixote (1933)
- High and Low (1933)
- A Modern Hero (1934)
- Street of Shadows (1937)
- The Shanghai Drama (1938)
- Girls in Distress (1939)
- The Comedians (1941)
- Paracelsus (1943)
- Der Fall Molander (1945)
- The Trial (1948)
- Mysterious Shadows (1949)
- Call Over the Air (1951)
- Voice of Silence (1953)
- Cose da pazzi (1954)
- The Confession of Ina Kahr (1954)
- The Last Ten Days (1955)
- Jackboot Mutiny (1955)
- Ballerina (1956)
- Through the Forests and Through the Trees (1956)
 | This article related to a French film of the 1930s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
