Top cast:John R. Cumpson,Florence Lawrence,Linda Arvidson
Director:Mark Molloy
Genre:Fantasy
Region:Iran
Year:2000
Storyline:Then only long enough to marry that kid""s mother and get run out of the place by her folks...Why do you suppose he""s livin"" in this neck of the woods if he didn""t have something to hide."]Davies begs for a promise of fairness: "Major Tetley, you mustn""t let this be a lynching...Promise me you""ll bring ""em in for a fair trial...Tetley, you bring those men in alive." But here are no promises ("I promise I""ll abide by the majority will"), and the twenty-eight men are illegally deputized (to duly take the law into their own hands) by the insolent Mapes, the deputy sheriff, against the Judge""s orders.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.[A TV News report told of man""s first manned space flight to Mars.Eight months after its launch,The Icaruswas entering the Mars atmosphere.The next day""sSan Francisco Chroniclewas headlined: "Lost in Space?" Note: This was a nod to the original film - a space flight led by Colonel Taylor (Charles Heston)." He confessed that he had been fired (and banished) from many previous news jobs for alleged libel, for cheating with the boss"" wife, and for drunkenness:Tatum: I""m a pretty good liar.