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Release Date: 1941

Cast: John Abbott, Victor Mature, Mike Mazurki, Albert Bassermann, Maria Ouspenskaya, Marcel Dalio, Eric Blore, Phyllis Brooks, Ona Munson, Walter Huston, Gene Tierney, Ivan Lebedeff

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Melodrama, Costume Adventure, Black-and-white, Mystery, Suspense, Crime Thriller, Film noir

The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 American United Artists film noir starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston, with Victor Mature and Ona Munson. It was adapted for the screen by Josef von Sternberg, based on the play by John Colton, produced by Arnold Pressburger for United Artists, and directed by von Sternberg. This early film noir explores the lives and secret pasts of the main characters, played out in a luxurious casino owned by "Mother" Gin Sling. Keye Luke painted the mural that is displayed in the casino. The Shanghai Gesture received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction... MORE

The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 American United Artists film noir starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston, with Victor Mature and Ona Munson. It was adapted for the screen by Josef von Sternberg, based on the play by John Colton, produced by Arnold Pressburger for United Artists, and directed by von Sternberg. This early film noir explores the lives and secret pasts of the main characters, played out in a luxurious casino owned by "Mother" Gin Sling. Keye Luke painted the mural that is displayed in the casino. The Shanghai Gesture received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction (Boris Leven) and Best Original Music Score. Doctor Omar (Victor Mature) bribes the Shanghai police to not jail broke American showgirl Dixie Pomeroy (Phyllis Brooks); he invites her to seek a job at the casino owned by Dragon-lady "Mother" Gin Sling (Ona Munson), his boss. In the casino, Omar attracts the attention of a beautiful, privileged young woman (Gene Tierney), fresh from a European finishing school. She is out for some excitement. When asked, she gives her name as "Poppy" Smith. Meanwhile, Gin Sling is informed that she must move her establishment to the much less desirable Chinese sector. LESS