West of Shanghai [SEP] director
West of Shanghai
West of Shanghai is a 1937 American adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff as a Chinese warlord. Other films based on the same play included "The Bad Man" directed by Edwin Carewe and starring Holbrook Blinn, and a 1930 film of the "same title" directed by Clarence Badger and starring Walter Huston. In 1941, M-G-M made a version entitled "The Bad Man", starring Wallace Beery and Ronald Reagan and directed by Richard Thorpe.
Plot.
Sep 1937 – Apr 1938) and Nanjing (May? – Sep 1937). He became an advisory editor of ASIA magazine in 1934 (see ASIA of November, 1938). He married Elizabeth Chambers in Nanjing in August 1937.
After the Japanese invasion, his accounts for the "Guardian" were some of the firsthand information most easily available in the West. His cables from Shanghai, although at times censored, formed the basis for some early writing on the Nanjing massacre from 1937–38.
Timperley left Shanghai for