And let's not forget the psycho-exotic colonialist "sin and unspeakable vice" genre that evolves out of earlier von Sternberg, manifests in a French series that is parallel but not subsumed in "poetic realism," and that hits a brick wall in Europe once WWII starts, leaving only spy films and occasional American variants during the homefront era--of which THE SHANGHAI GESTURE is among the most prominent and most extreme...
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