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1941 |
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DRAMA
SO BAD
CONTROVERSIAL
PANNED
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BW |
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90 |
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In a low Shanghai gambling dive, Madame Gin Sling (Ona Munson) taunts her ex-husband (Walter Huston) with the degree to which their daughter (Gene Tierney, pictured) has become degraded.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Tedious, turgid melodrama lifted to the realms of high camp by von Sternberg's visual flamboyance, a hilariously humourless script, and the lurid excesses of his cast. Boris Leven's art direction was Oscar-nominated, as was Richard Hageman's music. Now a cult film, it was not kindly treated by contemporary critics.
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, Victor Mature, Walter Huston