The Prisoners of Shanghai () is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Géza von Bolváry and Augusto Genina and starring Carmen Boni, Jack Trevor, and Bernhard Goetzke.Trumpbour p.144 The film's sets were designed by the art director István Szirontai Lhotka. It focuses on similar themes to the subsequent Hollywood films Shanghai Express (1932) and The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933).
Synopsis Mary, the wife of a British consul Ralph Sinclair, is detained by Chinese General Hai Lung. He offers to spare her husband from execution if she will become his lover.
Cast Carmen Boni as Maria Jack Trevor as Ralph Sinclair, English consul Bernhard Goetzke as General Hai Lung Kurt Vespermann as Teddy Knickerbocker, reporter Agnes Petersen-Mozzuchinowa as Chinese Li Nien Soen Ling as General's adjutant
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Bibliography Trumpbour, John. Selling Hollywood to the World: US and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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