Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Shanghai express based on the story by Harry Hervey. "41623"--Disc labels and container. Blonde venus: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant. Shanghai express: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette.
Contents:
Disc 1. Blonde venus (89 min., 1932) / a Paramount picture; directed by Joseph Von Sternberg; [screenplay] by Jules Furthman and S.K. Lauren -- disc 2. Shanghai express (82 min., 1932) / a Paramount picture; Adolf Zukor presents; directed by Joseph Von Sternberg; screenplay by Jules Furthman.
Summary:
Blonde venus is the story of a woman whose scientist husband is diagnosed with radium poisoning. To pay for his treatment in Europe, she returns to the night club stage, garnering overnight success and falling for a rich, young politician, who offers financial support for her and her son. After her husband returns unexpectedly, she finds herself torn between him, her lover, her career and her child. Shanghai express is set in the exotic and war torn China of the 1930s, and concerns a woman who, after being jilted by her military lover, gains a reputation as a notorious advdenturess. The couple is reunited by chance on a train which is attacked by Chinese rebels. To save the man she still loves, the woman becomes involved with the rebel leader. This release includes the original theartical trailer.
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