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Auction History Result 8y792 SHANGHAI GESTURE Belgian '42 Josef von Sternberg, art of Gene Tierney & Victor Mature! Date Sold 3/13/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Belgian Movie Poster (measures 12" x 14 1/2" [30 x 37 cm]) (Learn More) The Shanghai Gesture (released in France simply as "Shanghai"), the 1942 Josef von Sternberg China Asian gambling crime film noir melodrama ("Shanghai Where almost anything can happen... and does!"; "From the celebrated play by John Colton"; "Not one dared to refuse this invitation!"; "Mother Gin Sling requests the pleasure of your company at dinner on Saturday Evening, the fourteenth of February at eight o'clock at Mother Gin Sling's Casino to usher in the Chinese New Year R.S.V.P. I am SURE you will come!"; "All roads meet in Shanghai where Mother Gin Sling ruled its glittering underworld - where lovely young Poppy was swiftly swept under by a half-mad love - where fatefully fascinating Dr. Omar thanked Allah for the love of which he tired so quickly! Fascinating characters made the stage play memorable - will make the picture unforgettable!"; produced by Arnold Pressburger; about an Asian woman who runs a gambling house in Shanghai, and a rich businessman buys the land it is on, and she must vacate soon, but she has an ace in the hole, which is that she was married to the businessman many years ago, and he has a daughter who has turned up in the gambling house, and the Asian woman gets the daughter addicted to drugs and alcohol, so that she can blackmail her father) starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston ("Sir Guy Charteris! Arrogant - powerful - trapped by the follies of his youth!"), Victor Mature, Ona Munson ("Mother Gin Sling - impassive, strange - with a past people could only hint at!"), Phyllis Brooks ("Dixie Pomeroy! She played a game with her youth and beauty... as the police waited!"), Albert Basserman, Maria Ouspenskaya, Eric Blore, Clyde Fillmore, Ivan Lebedeff, and Rex Evans NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that normally we would assume that this U.S. movie would have been released in Belgium after World War II but apparently it made it into the country prior to the German invasion and was shown during the war as the censor stamp at lower left, when viewed close-up, pretty clearly reads 1943! Also note that this poster has been trimmed and it now measures 12" x 14 1/2" [30 x 37 cm]. Also note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good to very good. The poster originally had a blank top that was neatly trimmed off (this is commonly done with Belgian posters, similar to how the blank top is trimmed off of U.S. window cards). There are some light brown stains around the edges of the poster and there are minor creases scattered throughout. There is a tax stamp at lower left. The poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition, especially considering its age, and if one chose to have it restored it would look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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