The Shanghai Gesture

6.2
Overview
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
Review (1)
CinemaSerf (Rated: 6)
"Sir Guy Charteris" (Walter Huston) is an entrepreneurial British developer who has his eyes on the gin-palace of "Mother Gin Sling" (Ona Munson). The latter woman is running her successful den of iniquity and has no intention of acquiescing to the venal aspirations of her new nemesis. Determined to...
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