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Incident in Shanghai

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Initial release
  
January 1938

Running time
  
1h 7m

Duration
  

Director
  
John Paddy Carstairs

Genres
  
Drama, War film

Writer
  
John Paddy Carstairs, A.R. Rawlinson

Cast
  
Patrick Barr, Margaret Vyner, John Deverell, Derek Gorst, Ralph Roberts, George Courtney, Lotus Fragrance

Related John Paddy Carstairs movies
  
The Square Peg (1959), Dancing with Crime (1947), He Found a Star (1941), The Big Money (1958), A Weekend with Lulu (1961)

Incident in Shanghai is a 1938 British drama film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Margaret Vyner, Patrick Barr, Ralph Roberts and Derek Gorst. It was made at Pinewood Studios as a quota quickie for release by Paramount Pictures. It was shot in eleven days on a budget of £7,000.

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It was considered to have topical interest for audiences due to the ongoing Second Sino-Japanese War.

Plot

In Shanghai, Madeleine Linden is an unhappy wife who falls in love with wounded pilot Pat Avon, upon whom her husband Brian, the head of the Red Cross, must operate.

Cast

  • Margaret Vyner as Madeleine Linden
  • Patrick Barr as Pat Avon
  • Ralph Roberts as Robert Barlow
  • Derek Gorst as Brian Linden
  • John Deverell as Weepie
  • George Courtney as Mel Purdue
  • Lotus Fragrance as Butterfly Ku
  • Rita Davies as Ada Newell

    • Critical reception

    TV Guide called it a "...plodding romantic drama."

    References

    Incident in Shanghai Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Incident in Shanghai IMDb