Top cast:D.W. Griffith,Anthony O'Sullivan
Director:Domingo González
Genre:Drama
Region:Germany
Year:2007
Storyline:The shock of seeing his life""s work destroyed causes him to lose his mind.He remembers that he volunteered as a missionary because he had no facility with languages of Greek and Hebrew and failed he exams.It became Dietrich""s biggest US box-office hit, taking in a record amount of $3.7 million for Paramount.It was remade asNight Plane from Chungking (1943)and asPeking Express (1951).Plot SynopsisIn the opening scene, a ""Shanghai Express"" train was being boarded and loaded with baggage at the bustling Peking Railroad Station.I""d have played for food money.It was the game, the sounds, the smells.Did you ever hold a ball or a glove to your face?...I used to love traveling on the rains from town to town.The hotels, brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms.It was the crowd rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep.Shoot, I""d play for nothing.Ray""s family slowly emerged onto the porch from inside.Joe criticized the glare of the floodlights in his eyes, since in his day, they didn""t exist ("It makes it harder to see the ball").And man was afraid for both parent apes possessed the power of speech.So both were brutally murdered.[A short review of the events described up to this point were shown with excerpts fromEscape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).