Shanghai Express (1932)
Drama, Romance, War, Crime, History • 1h 22m
Overview
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, Lawrence Grant, Louise Closser Hale, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Émile Chautard, George Blagoi, Leonard Carey, George Chung, Wong Chung, Jack Deery, Herbert Evans, Willie Fung, Tom Gubbins, Forrester Harvey, Claude King, James B. Leong, Miki Morita, Minoru Nishida, Victor Wong, Ura Mita
Director: William Dieterle
Director: William Dieterle
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Director: Raoul Walsh
Unofficial DVD
New 4K restoration
Director: Raoul Walsh
Unofficial DVD
New 4K restoration
Director: Marion Gering
Director: Marion Gering
Director: John Ford
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: John Ford
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: Edgar Selwyn
Director: Edgar Selwyn
Director: William A. Wellman
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: William A. Wellman
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Film Detective or Film Masters Blu-ray 4K restoration from 35mm Original Camera Negative
Film Detective or Film Masters Blu-ray 4K restoration from 35mm Original Camera Negative
Director: Nick Grindé
Director: Nick Grindé
Director: William Beaudine
Director: William Beaudine
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Director: Josef von Sternberg
All very old restoration, but Kino Lorber > Germany Universum > MoC. Kino Lorber Germany Blu-ray has more noise reduction while English version's noise reduction is kept at minimum. MoC has very week encoding and crushed blacks.
Sources:
caps-a-holic on MoC vs Germany
DVDBeaver on Kino Lorber vs MoC
2001 Kino Lorber DVD or 2003 Eureka DVD
Director: Josef von Sternberg
All very old restoration, but Kino Lorber > Germany Universum > MoC. Kino Lorber Germany Blu-ray has more noise reduction while English version's noise reduction is kept at minimum. MoC has very week encoding and crushed blacks.
Sources:
caps-a-holic on MoC vs Germany
DVDBeaver on Kino Lorber vs MoC
2001 Kino Lorber DVD or 2003 Eureka DVD
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Indicator Blu-ray has better encoding than Criterion Blu-ray, both 4K restoration, see DVDBeaver caps
No caps on France Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Indicator Blu-ray has better encoding than Criterion Blu-ray, both 4K restoration, see DVDBeaver caps
No caps on France Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Director: Noah Baumbach
Director: Noah Baumbach
Director: Leo McCarey
Director: Leo McCarey
Director: Billy Wilder
Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Capelight/Kino Lorber which has heavy noise reduction and opening snare hit is missing, Capelight is slightly better encoded than Kino Lorber
Director: Billy Wilder
Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Capelight/Kino Lorber which has heavy noise reduction and opening snare hit is missing, Capelight is slightly better encoded than Kino Lorber
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Mosfilm official 4K Youtube Streaming
See comparison vs German Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray which is a 2K upscale of the previous restoration
Criterion/Artificial Eye Blu-ray are even older restoration than the Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray
Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray has incorrect pitch on the Russian audio see thread
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Mosfilm official 4K Youtube Streaming
See comparison vs German Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray which is a 2K upscale of the previous restoration
Criterion/Artificial Eye Blu-ray are even older restoration than the Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray
Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray has incorrect pitch on the Russian audio see thread
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
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