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Fay Wray in Shanghai Madness

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PerfectPawn	Fay Wray in Shanghai Madness	Lead	[-]
Nov 8 11 11:44 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's not a horror film, but since it stars Fay Wray I thought it might fit with the forum's theme -- just curious if anyone has ever seen the obscure 1933 "Shanghai Madness," a Fox Film she made with Spencer Tracy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024546/ I'm figuring it's a lost movie, because bootleg copies don't even exist...I've tried ioffer, my usual contacts, etc, and gotten nothing. It sounds like an exotic-locale action film in the vein of RKO's supercool 1932 film "Roar of the Dragon," with a finale that features a machine gun-toting Spencer Tracy blasting away Chinese soldiers, per the contemporary New York Times review: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9402E3D7153FE63ABC4B51DFBF668388629EDE
Babetician		#1	[-]
Nov 8 11 3:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I suppose it won't turn up on TCM any time soon then. The most obscure Fay Wray film I've seen was something where she was in a diving bell being menaced by an octopus, and running out of air.
PerfectPawn		#2	[-]
Nov 8 11 5:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That's "Below the Sea," which TCM actually played a while back. I was lucky enough to get the broadcast on DVDR. Pretty good for the most part. Practically all of her movies are available on the Ioffer/DVDR/gray market, with the exceptions of "Madame Spy" and "Shanghai Madness" -- which, of course, are the two I most want to see!!
TomWeaver999		#3	[-]
Nov 8 11 6:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In the AFI CATALOG for the 1930s, the synopsis of SHANGHAI MADNESS is preceded by "Print viewed" -- so it still exists SOMEwhere. MADAME SPY they list as "Not viewed" so apparently they couldn't find that one.
Friend of Daniel		#4	[-]
Nov 8 11 8:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That's "Below the Sea," which TCM actually played a while back. I recorded that one, too. Apparently it originally included some color underwater footage. All the characters gather to watch 'amazing color moving pictures taken under the sea'. The projector in the film starts up - and the film jumps to the lights coming up with all the characters agreeing it was amazing. I guess the sequence got cut out to be used in some other film at some point.
Friend of Daniel		#5	[-]
Nov 16 11 11:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Friend of Daniel wrote: That's "Below the Sea," which TCM actually played a while back. I recorded that one, too. Apparently it originally included some color underwater footage. All the characters gather to watch 'amazing color moving pictures taken under the sea'. The projector in the film starts up - and the film jumps to the lights coming up with all the characters agreeing it was amazing. I guess the sequence got cut out to be used in some other film at some point. TCM ran an early 30's short the other day titled COLOR SCALES or something like that. It was basically murky color footage of some sickly-looking coral reef fish with the typical early 30's punny narration ("This is a surgeon fish. You can have him for dinner and get your tonsils out all at the same time!"). I wonder if this was the excised color footage from BELOW THE SEA.

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