"A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey."
Marlene Dietrich
as Shanghai Lily
Clive Brook
as Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey
Anna May Wong
as Hui Fei
Warner Oland
as Mr. Henry Chang
Eugene Pallette
as Sam Salt
Lawrence Grant
as Reverend Carmichael
Louise Closser Hale
as Mrs. Haggerty
Gustav von Seyffertitz
as Eric Baum
Émile Chautard
as Major Lenard
George Blagoi
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Leonard Carey
as Carey (uncredited)
George Chung
as Chinese Soldier (uncredited)
Wong Chung
as Chinese Officer Checking Passports (uncredited)
Jack Deery
as British Officer at Shanghai (uncredited)
Herbert Evans
as British Railway Officer (uncredited)
Willie Fung
as Train Engineer (uncredited)
Tom Gubbins
as Chinese Officer (uncredited)
Forrester Harvey
as Peiping Ticket Agent (uncredited)
Claude King
as Mr. Albright (uncredited)
James B. Leong
as A Rebel (uncredited)
Miki Morita
Minoru Nishida
as Li Fung (uncredited)
Victor Wong
Ura Mita
as Chinese Woman (uncredited)
Jules Furthman
Screenplay
Lee Garmes
Director of Photography
Travis Banton
Costume Design
Josef von Sternberg
Director
Frank Sullivan
Editor
Adolph Zukor
Executive Producer
Hans Dreier
Art Direction
James Wong Howe
Additional Photography
Herman Hand
Orchestrator
Warner Cruze
Assistant Camera
W. Franke Harling
Original Music Composer
Harry D. Mills
Sound
Presenter
Milton Bridenbecker
René Hubert
Costumer
Technical Advisor
Richard Kollorsz
Set Designer
Junius Estep
Still Photographer
Daniel L. Fapp
Second Assistant Camera
John Leipold
Warren Lynch
Karl Hajos
Otto Dyar
Homer Plannette
Gaffer
Roy Clark
Rudolph G. Kopp
Harry Hervey
Story