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Academy Award Cinematography 1933 · Winner
Academy Award Directing 1933 · Nominated
Academy Award Outstanding Production 1933 · Nominated
Academy Award Cinematography 1933 · Winner
Academy Award Directing 1933 · Nominated
Academy Award Outstanding Production 1933 · Nominated
In Peking, China, during a civil war, British Capt. Donald Harvey (Clive Brook) meets his old flame Magdalen (Marlene Dietrich) and learns with dismay that she has become a prostitute known as Shanghai Lily. Both are traveling to Shanghai via train, and while they grow reacquainted, they remain unaware that they are traveling with spy and rebel...