Genre: Film-Noir, Drama, Melodrama, Prostitution, Political, Campy, Tear Jerker, Suspense, Police, Revenge, Murder, Disturbing, Blackmail
Tagline: People Live in Shanghai for Many Reasons... Most of Them Bad!
Plot: "The Shanghai Gesture" is a lavishly baroque melodrama set in an international gambling house in Asia, featuring a cast of characters with less-than-reputable pasts. Mother Gin-Sling, the doyenne of the house, controls everyone and everything in her domain. Mother is told by the authorities to close down the establishment because her former lover, Sir Guy, has just bought the real estate it sits on. Mother seeks revenge by setting up his beautiful daughter Poppy with Dr. Omar, a Eurasian of dubious background. Sir Guy fiercely disapproves of Poppy's affair and lifestyle. More murky secrets bubble to the surface before Mother and Sir Guy reach the final blow-out.
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Gene Tierney
Laura, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Heaven Can Wait |
 | Walter Huston
The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Yankee Doodle Dandy | | | Phyllis Brooks
Follow the Fleet, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, In Old Chicago | | | |
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