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You can feel the whole thing surging forward like a mighty steam-roller, vivid and exciting, beating headlong into a stirring crescendo that tinkles notes of accented harmony.

Louise Closser Hale and Eugene Pallette have engrossing bits and Anna May Wong contributes a mysteriously and darkly drawn character sketch. And Miss Dietrich, as I have intimated, dominates the whole shebang -- and does it gloriously.

Shanghai Express is a finely made and finely played- picture and stands out, head and shoulders over the other cinemas of the week.

From this point on the plot turns on time-worn melodramatic situation, but this is handled so cleverly and acted with such competence by [the cast] that it nevertheless holds attention.

The picture itself ranks high among the really artistic creations that the screen has put forth -- and this through the uncanny direction of Josef von Sternberg, who has vitalized it into something far removed from the ordinary.