The Ship From Shanghai (1930) (MOD) "Albus Dumbledore"

The Ship From Shanghai (1930) (MOD) "Albus Dumbledore"It all starts light enough: A band plays "Singin' in the Rain" in Chinese in a Shanghai nightclub while a supercilious playboy (Conrad Nagel) pursues a beautiful, if overly serious, member of the English aristocracy (Kay Johnson). A married couple (Holmes Herbert and Carmel Myers), fellow members of the smart set, proposes the lark of a lifetime: a leisurely three month voyage to the States aboard a borrowed sailing yacht. The American playboy,

Trends come and go

especially when he's played by Western icon Randolph Scott

he was a "shut your mouth" detective to reckon with

all can open their hearts to The Constant Nymph

Wealthy playboy Paul Wagner makes illicit entrances a specialty

who has his own fiancee to worry about

Race around the world with this wacky bunch where the laps and the laughs don't end `til the finish line

That rapport is again evident in this charming period piece that evokes a by gone America

the second of Roundtree's three movie portrayals of the street-smart

From filmmakers John and Roy Boulting (Brighton Rock

adulterers

their fellow passengers are playing cloak-and-dagger