SHANGHAI EXPRESS TRANSCRIPT 1931, Paramount Pictures, Directed by Josef von Sternberg, Screenplay by Jules Furthman MRS. HAGGERTY The Shanghai Express ain't gone yet, has it? TICKET AGENT No, Madame. MRS. HAGGERTY I want a ticket to Shanghai, first class, please. TICKET AGENT Thirty five dollars and thirty six cents, Mex, Madame. MRS. HAGGERTY Is there a dining car this time? TICKET AGENT Yes, madame. Everything but a Turkish bath. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Ahem. MRS. HAGGERTY Hmph. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Shanghai, first class, please. INSPECTOR What have you got in that basket, missus? MRS. HAGGERTY Just a little snack of lunch my niece put up for me. INSPECTOR Ain't got any animals in there? MRS. HAGGERTY I hope not. PORTER Good morning, sir. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Porter, come in here! PORTER Excuse me, sir. Yes, sir? REVEREND CARMICHAEL I won't share a compartment with this woman! PORTER I'll change it tonight. REVEREND CARMICHAEL You'll change me now. I haven't lived for ten years in this country not to know a woman like that when I see one. Get me another compartment. Take my luggage out of here. MAN Here you are Harvey. HARVEY Oh, thanks so much. MAN I say, Harvey, you're in for a good time. HARVEY Why? MAN Do you know who's on this train? HARVEY No, who? MAN Shanghai Lily. HARVEY Who's Shanghai Lily? MAN Don't tell me you've never heard of Shanghai Lily? (00:05:00) ** ** ** MAN Everybody in China knows her. She's a notorious coaster. HARVEY What in the name of Confucius is a coaster? MAN You're hopeless. A coaster's a woman who lives by her wits along the China coast. MRS. HAGGERTY Newsboy! Here, wait a bit. This magazine you sold me says August fifteenth, nineteen-twenty-seven. NEWSBOY Latest number, madame. MRS. HAGGERTY But I tell you it's four years old. NEWSBOY Latest number, madame. MRS. HAGGERTY Is it Nineteen thirty-one or am I out of my mind? MAJOR (Madame, Je regret...je ne parle pas anglais, parlez vous francais? Parlez vous francais vous?) SAM She outta keep it for the history and get herself an education. Here we are, boy. MRS. HAGGERTY I suppose you will be as glad to be at home as I will. We know what year it is, don't we? Now you just be a good boy and don't make a noise or they'll put you in the baggage car. SOLDIER Hup! INSPECTOR There you are my lad. All clear 'til we meet number two outside Tientsin. MRS. HAGGERTY I'll have the law on you if you harm a bone in his head. He's got to have his biscuits twice a day and nothing but boiled water. Don't worry, Waffles, I'll look after you! CONDUCTOR All aboard! All aboard! ** SIGN READS PEIPING(Peking) ** HENRY Well, we're off on time. SAM Say, partner, do you ever make a little bet? My name's Sam Salt. I bet on everything under the sun going right or wrong. I'll lay you odds that this ol' rattler don't get into Shanghai on time. HENRY Sir, let me remind you that China is in a state of civil war and we will be fortunate if we arrive in Shanghai at all. Nice stone you have there. SAM There's the mate to it. ** ** ** ** ** ** HENRY Very pretty. MAJOR (French) HARVEY Yes, it is a little stuffy in here, isn't it? MR. BAUM Sir, I'm an invalid. It's very dangerous for me to travel in a compartment where the windows are open. HARVEY We're gonna be in here for three days, you know. Is there anything I can do for you? MR. BAUM I can take care of myself, thank you. HARVEY Well, I think I'll get a little air, if you don't mind. I'll close the door for you too. CHINESE MAN (Chinese) SAM Even money we don't get away for an hour. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Can you tell me what's wrong now? HENRY You're in China now, sir, where time and life have no value. REVEREND CARMICHAEL I know I'm in China. CONDUCTOR (Chinese) (00:10:10) ** ** ** HARVEY Madeline. SHANGHAI LILY Well, Doctor, I haven't seen you in a long time. You haven't changed at all, Doctor. HARVEY Well, you've changed a lot, Madeline. SHANGHAI LILY Have I, Doc? You mind me calling you Doc? Or must I be more respectful? HARVEY Well, you never were respectful and you always did call me "Doc." I didn't think I'd ever run into you again. SHANGHAI LILY Have you thought of me much, Doc? HARVEY Let's see. Exactly, how long has it been? SHANGHAI LILY Five years and four weeks. HARVEY Well, for five years and four weeks I've thought of nothing else. SHANGHAI LILY You were always polite, Doc. You haven't changed a bit. HARVEY You have, Madeline. You've changed a lot. SHANGHAI LILY Have I lost my look? HARVEY No, you're more beautiful than ever. SHANGHAI LILY How have I changed? HARVEY I don't know. I wish I could describe it. SHANGHAI LILY Well, Doc. I've changed my name. HARVEY Married? SHANGHAI LILY No. It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily. HARVEY So, you're Shanghai Lily. SHANGHAI LILY The notorious white flower of China. You heard of me and you always believed what you heard. HARVEY And I still do. You see, I haven't changed at all. ** CHINESE MAN (Chinese) ** HARVEY Well, it was nice to see you again, Madeline. SHANGHAI LILY Oh, I don't know. ** MRS. HAGGERTY I heard your gramophone, ladies, and thought I'd come in and get acquainted, if you don't mind. SHANGHAI LILY Not at all. Come in. MRS. HAGGERTY A bit lonely on a train, isn't it? I'm used to having people around. They put my dog in the baggage car. That's why I dropped in on you. I've been visiting my niece in Peking. She married a seafaring man. He hasn't been home in four years and she ain't been very cheerful. I have a boarding house in Shanghai. Yorkshire pudding is my specialty. And I only take the most respectable people. SHANGHAI LILY Don't you find respectable people terribly...dull? MRS. HAGGERTY You're joking, aren't you? I only know the most respectable people. You see, I keep a boardinghouse. SHANGHAI LILY What kind of a house did you say? MRS. HAGGERTY A boardinghouse. SHANGHAI LILY Oh. MRS. HAGGERTY I'm sure you're very respectable, Madame. HUI FEI I must confess. I don't quite know the standard of respectability that you demand in you boardinghouse, Mrs. Haggerty. MRS. HAGGERTY I've made a terrible mistake. I'd better look after me dog. I beg your pardon? REVEREND CARMICHAEL I beg yours! ** ** ** ** ** ** (00:15:01)** ** REVEREND CARMICHAEL It's a shame allowing such women on a first -class train. SAM What's the matter with them, Parson? HENRY I imagine the honorable divine objects to their morals. SAM Why, I thought they were pretty good looking. At least Shanghai Lily is. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Do you mean to say that Shanghai Lily is on this train? PORTER Hot water. SAM About time. Well being a married man I only know her by sight and reputation. But I'll lay you a hundred to one, in any currency you got, that the woman in the next compartment is Shanghai Lily. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Shanghai Lily! SAM Is it a bet? REVEREND CARMICHAEL I told you once before, sir... PORTER Hot towel, please. REVEREND CARMICHAEL No, thank you. I don't bet. SAM Well, I'll bet you a Mexican dollar, or whatever you use for money, that those two dames next door are not going to have an easy time on this train. ** HARVEY Good evening. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Good evening. I suppose we shall be in Tientsin soon. HARVEY About 11:00 tonight. Getting off there? REVEREND CARMICHAEL I wish I were. Unfortunately, I have to proceed to Shanghai. HARVEY Why "unfortunately"? REVEREND CARMICHAEL Well sir, I suppose every train carries its cargo of sin, but this train is burdened with more than its share. HARVEY Sir, you seem stressed. REVEREND CARMICHAEL My name's Carmichael, Doctor of Divinity in the service of mankind. And whom have I the honor of addressing? HARVEY Well, sir, my name is Donald Harvey. Doctor of Medicine in the service of his Majesty. It's charming to make your acquaintance sir. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Doctor Harvey. I want to put you on your guard. HARVEY On my guard, why what's wrong? REVEREND CARMICHAEL One of them is yellow and the other is white, but both their souls are rotten. HARVEY You interest me, Mr. Carmichael. I'm not exactly irreligious. But being a physician I sometimes wonder how a man like you can locate a soul; and having located it diagnose its condition as rotten. REVEREND CARMICHAEL That's heathen talk doctor. You're a materialist! Any man with half an eye should be able to see that those two woman are riding this train in search of victims. HARVEY That's a pretty grave charge Mr. Carmichael. I don't know anything about the Chinese woman but as for the other lady... REVEREND CARMICHAEL Why confound it, sir, that's Shanghai Lily. For the last fortnight I have been attending a man who went out of his mind after spending every penny on her. And that's not all I know, she's wrecked a dozen men up and down the China coast. HARVEY You're mistaken, sir. She's a friend of mine. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Well, sir. If I were in your boots, I wouldn't brag about it. PORTER Dinner is served. (Chinese) HUI FEI Well, I'm ready. SHANGHAI LILY I was hoping that you would take us into dinner. You seem upset, Doctor. HARVEY Oh, no. Not at all. SHANGHAI LILY This is Captain Harvey. Miss Hui Fei. HUI FEI I am glad to meet you, Captain Harvey. HARVEY It's a great pleasure. SAM Good evening, folks. HARVEY & SHANGHAI LILY Good evening. SAM It's time to put on the nose bag. HUI FEI I'll wait for you in the diner. MAJOR (Bon appetit, mademoiselle) SHANGHAI LILY Merci, monsieur. MAJOR (Bon appetit, monsieur) HARVEY Thank you, Major. MAJOR (Bonsoir) SHANGHAI LILY Bonsoir. MAJOR (Bonsoir) HARVEY Good evening, Major. SHANGHAI LILY You are very cruel, Doc. ** ** ** ** ** ** HARVEY I reserve the privilege of choosing my friends. SHANGHAI LILY She's no friend of mine. I was only trying to be decent. HARVEY Oh, professional courtesy? SHANGHAI LILY Call it what you like. New, isn't it? HARVEY Yes. SHANGHAI LILY Bravery? HARVEY Of sorts. That's new too, isn't it? SHANGHAI LILY Yes. HARVEY It's very becoming. SHANGHAI LILY Merci monsieur. MAJOR (French) SHANGHAI LILY Merci monsieur, merci. MAJOR (French) SAM Hold on, Major. Don't let those sardines get away from ya'. MAJOR (French) MR. BAUM Pardon me. please. HARVEY Oh, I'm sorry. HENRY (Chinese) HARVEY Good evening. HENRY Aren't you coming into dinner, Captain? HARVEY Yes, of course. After you, sir. CHEF (Chinese) MR. BAUM Shut off those fans. I'm an invalid. CHEF (Chinese) SAM If those fans are shut off, the rest of us'll be invalids before the journey is over. HARVEY Can we sit here? MAJOR (Oui, monsieur) HARVEY Sit down, Major. MAJOR (Merci, monsieur) (00:20:02)** ** HARVEY Thank you. ** CHINESE OFFICER (Chinese) SHANGHAI LILY What did he say? HUI FEI He said we should get our passports and go out on the platform. HARVEY Passports? What do they want our passports for? HENRY There are government troops. They want us all outside. CHINESE OFFICER (Chinese) MRS. HAGGERTY I won't get off. We'll all get killed. The conductor promised me there wouldn't be any trouble, or I wouldn't have brought Waffles along. SAM Now ma'am, don't get me excited. I am trying to figure the odds of any of us getting out of this alive. REVEREND CARMICHAEL It's an outrage. I'm going to finish my dinner. HARVEY Mr. Carmichael, if you ask me, I think you should consider your dinner relatively unimportant. MAJOR (French) REVEREND CARMICHAEL I should complain to my Consul. They can't do this to me. MR. BAUM I shouldn't get off. The night air is very bad for me. HARVEY Don't be silly, Mr. Baum. We're in the midst of a civil war. Spies and firing squads. MR. BAUM I have nothing to fear. I am a German citizen. I have nothing to fear.(German) ** TRAIN PATRONS (Chinese) ** SAM I'm gonna douse this headlight. They're after somebody and I'm glad they've got nothing on me. MAJOR (French) SAM I don't know what you are saying, brother, but don't say it again. There you are, my boy. ** ** ** ** ** ** OFFICER (Chinese) HUI FEI (Chinese) OFFICER (Chinese) ** CONDUCTOR All aboard! HARVEY That's a lot of fuss to make about one man. I wonder why they arrested him? HENRY Probably a revolutionary spy trying to get back to his own lines. (00:25:00) ** Telegraph reads Blue lotus lost must have red blossoms midnight. Telegraph reads *: *Li Fung captured. Hold Shanghai Express at Te-Shan twelve tonight at any cost, Number One. ** HENRY (Chinese) HUI FEI What do you want? HENRY It's a long journey, and a lonely one. HUI FEI (Chinese) ** PORTOR Your compartments made up, sir? MAJOR (French) SAM Someday that sardine inspector's gonna go too far. MR. BAUM Ahh! Pardon me. Pardon me.(German) SAM What'd he say to you? HENRY Something he'll probably have occasion to regret. SAM I can't make head or tail out of you, Mr. Chang. Are you Chinese or are you white, or what are ya'? HENRY My mother is Chinese my father was white. SAM You look more like a white man to me. HENRY I'm not proud of my white blood. SAM Oh, you're not, are you? HENRY No, I'm not. SAM Rather be a China man, huh? HENRY Yes. SAM What future is there being a china man? Your born, you eat your way through a handful of rice, and ya' die. What a country. Let's have a drink! ** SHANGHAI LILY Do you want to be alone, Doctor? HARVEY No, it's quite alright. I was just going to turn in anyway. SHANGHAI LILY Don't let me detain you. I thought it was quite early. What time is it? HARVEY Nine-thirty. SHANGHAI LILY You still have the watch I gave you, Donald. HARVEY I was afraid you'd notice it. SHANGHAI LILY I had long hair then. HARVEY I remember quite well. SHANGHAI LILY Do you expect to stay in Shanghai awhile? HARVEY I think so. SHANGHAI LILY Then we ought to see a lot of each other. HARVEY Perhaps. SHANGHAI LILY What have you been doing, Donald, since I saw you last? HARVEY Nothing much. Mostly service routine. A couple of years in India, after our smash-up. I went back to England for awhile. Then I was assigned to a scientific expedition in Manchuria. SHANGHAI LILY Sounds as if you had been rather lonesome, Doc. HARVEY I can't say I was very lonesome. It was an active life, full of interest and excitement. SHANGHAI LILY I suppose you mean women. HARVEY It was difficult to find someone to take your place. SHANGHAI LILY Did you try very hard? HARVEY Not particularly. I didn't want to be hurt again. SHANGHAI LILY Always a bit selfish, Doc. Thinking of your own hurt. HARVEY I can't except your reproach, I was the only one hurt. ** ** ** ** ** ** SHANGHAI LILY You left me without a word. Purely because I indulged in a woman's trick to make you jealous. I wanted to be certain that you loved me. Instead I lost you. I suffered quite a bit, and I probably deserved it. HARVEY I was a fool to let you go out of my life. ** HARVEY I wish you could tell me there'd been no other men. SHANGHAI LILY I wish I could, Doc. But five years in China is a long time. (00:30:04)** ** HARVEY I wish I had 'em back. SHANGHAI LILY What would you have done with them? There's a scheme of things. Sooner or later we would've parted anyway; and we might never had met again. HARVEY We wouldn't have parted, Madeline. We'd have gone back to England, married and been very happy. There are a lot of things I wouldn't have done if I had those five years to live over again. SHANGHAI LILY There's only one thing I wouldn't have done, Doc. HARVEY What, for instance. SHANGHAI LILY I wouldn't have bobbed my hair. Good night, Donald. PORTOR (Chinese) HARVEY From one of your lovers? SHANGHAI LILY No. HARVEY I wish I could believe you. SHANGHAI LILY Don't you? HARVEY No. SHANGHAI LILY Will you never learn to believe without proof? HARVEY I believe you, Madeline. ** LETTER READS Shanghai Express- En route I can't wait until you return to Shanghai. Call me up when you arrive and wire me if you want my car to meet you at station. All my love, Carlisle ** SHANGHAI LILY When I needed your faith, you withheld it. And now, when I don't need it and don't deserve it, you give it to me. CLOCK READS 12:05. MRS. HAGGERTY Waffles? Waffles? Waffles! Waffles! Waffles! Waffles! Woof-woof! Woof-woof! CONDUCTOR (Chinese)Everybody is to get dressed. You are to be taken from the train at the station. Please leave all your luggage behind. SOLDIER (Chinese) CONDUCTOR This way please. SOLDIER (Chinese) SAM Quite a reception, eh? MR. BAUM Yeah. (00:35:00)** ** INSPECTOR (Chinese) CONDUCTOR (Chinese) MRS. HAGGERTY Me? CONDUCTOR Yes. Follow me upstairs. MRS. HAGGERTY Everybody told me there wasn't the slightest of danger. I made a point of asking. SOLDIER (Chinese) SAM Looks like the finish. I'll give anybody ten to one we don't get out of here alive. HARVEY You're wrong. They're rebel troops but they won't dare to harm us. SAM Say, where's Mr. Chang.? MAJOR (French) SAM I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he had something to do with all of this. HARVEY There must be something pretty serious behind this or they wouldn't have had the nerve to stop this train. REVEREND CARMICHAEL There is nothing behind it but down right robbery. They think they are going to hold us for ransom. They won't get one penny out of me. CONDUCTOR Mr. Sam Salt.(Chinese) MRS. HAGGERTY It's Mr. Chang. All dressed up in a soldier's uniform. SAM I know what he wants me for. And I told him a China man had no future. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Do you mean to say that it's Mr. Chang who's responsible for this outrage? MRS. HAGGERTY Indeed he is. The scoundrel. Imagine his impudence asking me if I had any wealthy or influential friends. ** ** ** ** ** ** REVEREND CARMICHAEL I told you so. I knew they were holding us for ransom. HUI FEI I thought his face seemed familiar. The government has offered a price of twenty thousand for his capture alive or dead. It'll be a great day for China when that price is paid. CONDUCTOR Mr. Eric Baum. (Chinese) SAM He's the headman alright. MR. BAUM It's bad for my heart to climb these stairs up. (German) I'm an invalid! MRS. HAGGERTY Did he get the jewels, Mr. Salt? Oh, what a shame. Well, he didn't take them after all. SAM He got the phony ones. MRS. HAGGERTY Phony? SAM These are phony too. The real ones are in the safe in Shanghai. MRS. HAGGERTY I suppose they're imitation also. SAM You don't want to make a bet on that, do you lady? MRS. HAGGERTY I never bet with gamblers. SAM I didn't think you did. HENRY What is your business, Mr. Baum? MR. BAUM I have a coal mine near Calcutta. A bankrupt coal mine. HENRY You have no coal mine. According to papers found in your luggage, you deal in opium. And have shipped twelve thousand pounds of it into China in the last year. MR. BAUM You're wrong. I deal only in coal. I don't traffic in forbidden merchandise. HENRY Do you know that a China man dealing in opium is penalized by death? MR. BAUM You can't shoot me. I'm willing to pay a fine. I can explain everything. HENRY (Chinese) MR. BAUM (German) HENRY I am not punishing you for dealing in opium, but for your insolence to me on the train. ** SAM What's a matter with him? Has he fainted? HARVEY They've branded him. SAM Branded him?! EVERYONE Oh, horror. HUI FEI (Chinese) SOLDIER (Chinese) HUI FEI I'll get some oil from the train. HARVEY Wait, I'll come with you. I need to get my bag. MRS. HAGGERTY Should never have made this journey. CONDUCTOR Major Lenard.(Chinese) MAJOR (French) CONDUCTOR Is anyone there who understands French? SHANGHAI LILY Yes, I do. CONDUCTOR Will, you come up here with him, please. MAJOR (French) SHANGHAI LILY (Mais oui) SOLDIER (Chinese) SAM You took the very words right out of my mouth, brother. SOLDIER (Chinese) HENRY Let me see your passports. Sit down. How long have you been in the French army? MAJOR (French) Twenty years. Twenty years mademoiselle. HENRY Your passport says nothing about your military rank. (00:40:00)** ** MAJOR (French) SHANGHAI LILY (French) MAJOR (French) HENRY Then why does he wear that uniform? SHANGHAI LILY (French) MAJOR (French) ** ** ** ** ** ** SHANGHAI LILY He is going to visit his sister and he doesn't want her to know about his disgrace. HENRY You may go. MAJOR (Merci, monsieur. Merci, mademoiselle) SHANGHAI LILY (French) HENRY (Chinese) Have you any wealthy or influential friends? SHANGHAI LILY No. I have no friends at all. HENRY Why are you going to Shanghai? SHANGHAI LILY I want to buy a new hat. HENRY I warn you this is a very serious matter. Where are you going to live in Shanghai? SHANGHAI LILY Grand Hotel. HENRY How can you afford to live at such an expensive hotel? How long were you in Peiping?** SHANGHAI LILY Eight weeks. HENRY And before that? SHANGHAI LILY In Shanghai. HENRY How long were you there? SHANGHAI LILY Just between trains. I make the trip quite often. HENRY How long have you been in China? SHANGHAI LILY Oh, about eight years. HENRY Parents living? SHANGHAI LILY They've forgotten me. It's just as well. HENRY Of course you're not married. SHANGHAI LILY No. All I managed to was to become engaged. HENRY Will you please come with me? CONDUCTOR Captain Harvey. (Chinese) SOLDIER (Chinese) MRS. HAGGERTY You're not going to go upstairs, are you Doctor? HARVEY I most certainly am. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Captain Harvey, I want you to tell him that the whole world will be informed of this outrage. HARVEY Mr. Carmichael. I shall do my very best to convey that to him. HENRY Captain Harvey, may I see your passport? HARVEY Just exactly who are you? I am a British officer and I demand to know by what right you are treating us in this outrageous manner? HENRY I am the Commander in Chief of the Revolution. The prisoner who was removed from the Shanghai Express last night was my right hand. An important officer in my army. HARVEY Your army. Why you're nothing but a collection of unprincipled bandits. The Chinese government will wipe you out in a fortnight. HENRY Perhaps you would like to aid the government in collecting the price put on my head. HARVEY Suppose you first tell me just exactly what you are after. HENRY I am looking for a hostage. To force the government to return my officer. Now, will you kindly let me see your passport? Captain Harvey, why are you going to Shanghai? HARVEY I've been ordered to perform an operation immediately upon my arrival. HENRY Who are you going to operate on? HARVEY I'm not at liberty to reveal that information. HENRY What is the matter with his excellency, the Governor- General of Shanghai? HARVEY As you can doubtlessly also can read from the paper you pilfered from my bag, hemiplegia. A medical term known to the layman as paralysis resulting from a blood clot in the brain. HENRY Well, Captain Harvey. It seems I've been fortunate to find a hostage important enough to ensure the return of my officer. Surely you will have no objection if I wire the British Embassy? HARVEY What if my importance is deemed insufficient to force the Chinese government to make this exchange? HENRY That emergency would be unfortunate for you all. I can't hold this village over twelve hours. Of course, Captain Harvey, I hope you won't be too angry with me if I ensure the safety of your honorable person. HARVEY Not at all. SOLDIER (Chinese) SOLDIER (Chinese) REVEREND CARMICHAEL What'd he say? HUI FEI He said we are to go back to the train and stay there. MRS. HAGGERTY Big bully! ** SIGN READS BRITISH LEGATION (00:45:05)** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** MINISTER Yes? Repeat that again, please. Yes. The Shanghai Express is being held up. MAN The Shanghai Express? MINISTER They're holding Captain Harvey as hostage. MAN Harvey the surgeon? What do they want, money? MINISTER I wish it were as simple as that. You must excuse me. I must get through to the Chinese government at once. ** CLOCK READS 12:37. WIRE READS Chinese government has agreed to deliver officer by 6 a.m. We count on your promise to return Captain Harvey. ** HENRY I hope you've been comfortable. SHANGHAI LILY What do you intend to do with us? CHEF (Chinese) SOLDIER (Chinese) HENRY I took the liberty of presuming that you'd join me for tea. SHANGHAI LILY I hope you don't mind if I prefer to go back to the train. HENRY About two days journey from here, into the interior, I have a palace waiting to be graced by your presence. Could I persuade you to accept my hospitality until such time as you should grow weary of me SHANGHAI LILY I'm weary of you now. HENRY I had no reason to believe my invitation would give offense to Shanghai Lily. SHANGHAI LILY Shanghai Lily has reformed. HENRY You don't mean to say that the eloquence of Doctor Carmichael has worked its miracle. Or is Captain Harvey to be credited with this extraordinary change? SHANGHAI LILY Maybe. HENRY Come. Don't be a fool. I'll make it worth your while. SHANGHAI LILY Don't touch me. HENRY Captain Harvey, if I were you I'd mind my own business. HARVEY Exactly what I intend to do. HENRY You are very fortunate in having Captain Harvey for a protector, as I've promised to return him alive. SHANGHAI LILY You shouldn't have done that, Donald. I could've taken care of myself. HARVEY Yes, I know. But it was coming to him. I wish I'd had my gun. SHANGHAI LILY You shouldn't have been so hasty. SOLDIER (Chinese) CONDUCTOR (Chinese) SOLDIER (Chinese) SHANGHAI LILY Let me go! ** SHANGHAI LILY Can't you do something about this? REVEREND CARMICHAEL All I can do is to suggest that you get down on your knees and pray. SHANGHAI LILY I think you are right, if God is still on speaking terms with me. REVEREND CARMICHAEL God remains on speaking terms with everybody. (00:50:35)** ** CLOCK READS 6:00. ** SAM Well, there he is. The gent that caused all the trouble still in his black night shirt. HENRY (Chinese) SPY (Chinese) SOLDIER (Chinese) ENGLISH OFFICER Good morning. Well, here we are. SAM You certainly are a sight for sore eyes, sir. When are we leaving? ALBRIGHT Is Doctor Harvey on board? SAM He is not. He is still upstairs visiting with Mr. Chang. ALBRIGHT Well, I guess I'll just take a look and see what is keeping him. I have orders not to proceed without him. SAM There's a man after my own heart. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** SHANGHAI LILY What did he say? ALBRIGHT I guess we'll just have to cool our heels. They won't let me go upstairs to find out. ** SOLDIER (Chinese) SHANGHAI LILY Don't do anything foolish. HUI FEI When are we leaving? SHANGHAI LILY I suppose as soon as Captain Harvey comes down. HUI FEI If he's up there he may never be come down. ** SHANGHAI LILY Why are you still holding Captain Harvey? The train is waiting for him. HENRY Is that your only interest in the matter? SHANGHAI LILY What difference would it matter whether I said "yes" or "no"? HENRY Why do you try to conceal that you're madly in love with him? SHANGHAI LILY I'm not trying to conceal anything. He means everything in the world to me. I love him. Since you want to know, I love him madly. HENRY Your affections are aroused rather swiftly, you just met the man. SHANGHAI LILY That's not true. I've known him for years. HENRY Well, you'll have a chance to prove your love for him. SHANGHAI LILY You're not going to punish him for trying to help me last night? HENRY I certainly am. He knew what he was doing and I know what I'm going to do. SHANGHAI LILY Any man would have come to my defense. You can't hold that against him. HENRY I'm not concerned with your ideas of justice. I live by my own code. (00:55:00)** ** SHANGHAI LILY What do you intend to do to him? You don't dare harm him. You promised to return him. HENRY I didn't say in what condition. If you wait here a few minutes, you can lead him back to the train, blind. SHANGHAI LILY You're insane, he's a British officer. The Chinese government will have your head for it. HENRY The Chinese government would have had my head long ago if it hadn't been such a good head. SHANGHAI LILY You can't mean what you are saying. You only wish to frighten me. Please don't torture me like this. I know it was wrong for him to interfere. Send someone with me to Shanghai, someone you can trust. I'll pay you to let him go now. HENRY What can you pay me with? SHANGHAI LILY I have some jewels, worth forty or fifty thousand. And I guess I can obtain that much more. HENRY That's not enough. SHANGHAI LILY I'll get more. I'll earn more, somehow. It'll be enough. Please let him go. HENRY All the money in the world can't wipe out his insult to me. ** HENRY You only had my interest before, now you have my admiration. I could love a woman like you. SHANGHAI LILY You made me an offer to leave with you, does it still hold good? HENRY I wouldn't trust you from here to the door. What assurance have I you won't trick me? SHANGHAI LILY I give you my word of honor. HENRY A man is a fool to trust any woman. But I believe a word of honor would mean something to you. ** HENRY Captain Harvey, it seems that they are waiting for you. I hope the journey won't be too lonely and that the Governor General of Shanghai will be benefited by your skill. HARVEY Thank you, Mr. Chang. I hope someday to have the pleasure of demonstrating my skill upon you. ** ALBRIGHT Captain Harvey. My name's Albright, Division Superintendent. I've all smoothed the train at your convenience. We'll have steam up in five minutes. HARVEY Alright Mr. Albright, is everybody on board? ALBRIGHT Everybody except a Chinese girl and a woman called Shanghai Lily hereabouts. HARVEY Where are they? ALBRIGHT I don't know where the Chinese girl is, but Shanghai Lily is somewhere up there? HARVEY When did she go up? ALBRIGHT Oh, just a few minutes ago. I expect she'll be down presently. SOLDIER (Chinese) SAM I guess he wants us to go in the train. MRS. HAGGERTY Well, why doesn't he say so? HARVEY Whose luggage are you unloading? ** ** ** ** ** ** PORTER Miss Lily's bags. Officers orders, sir. HARVEY Officer's orders, eh? I'm going to find out about this. Get the train ready to leave. MRS HAGGERTY Oh, dear we'll never get out of here alive. SAM Oh, I don't know. It just looks like Shanghai Lily was taking a side trip. SOLDIER (Chinese) HARVEY Why did you order the luggage of one of our passengers off the train? HENRY You're not referring to the lady known as Shanghai Lily? HARVEY I am. Where is she? Why are you detaining her? HENRY I'm not detaining her. She's decided to come with me in preference to continuing the journey with you, Captain Harvey. HARVEY That's a preposterous statement. You're lying Mr. Chang. HENRY I'm sorry to contradict you. (Chinese) SOLDIER (Chinese) HENRY Your friend seems inclined to doubt me. Tell him you're going with me of your own free will, so that he can peacefully take his departure before I become too annoyed with him. SHANGHAI LILY You better go, Donald. I decided to accept his offer. (01:00:05)** ** HARVEY Well, I wish you both a very pleasant journey. SOLDIER (Chinese) HARVEY Well, that's that. I'll only be another minute. CONDUCTOR Wake 'em up a bit. ALBRIGHT We're ready to go sir. Steam's up. Are we going to wait for those two women? SOLDIER (Chinese) HARVEY Yes, I think we're ready to go. ALBRIGHT All aboard! HUI FEI You better get her out of there. I just killed Chang. HARVEY Have you got a gun? SAM If there's gonna be any shooting, I'm gonna get under cover. HARVEY Madeline! SHANGHAI LILY Donald! HARVEY The train is waiting. SHANGHAI LILY Please go, Donald. Why don't you go? HARVEY Go on I tell you. Your friend Chang is dead. SPY (Chinese) HARVEY Come on! Get this train out of here double time. ALBRIGHT Put that luggage on board. ** SHANGHAI LILY Thank you, Donald. HARVEY I'd have done it for anybody. SAM Boy! How about straightening up this stable. PORTER (Chinese) SHANGHAI LILY I didn't believe I'd ever see this train again. Two days more. What time is it anyway? HARVEY I don't know. I'll find out for you if you wish. SHANGHAI LILY Where's your watch? HARVEY I had it before I went into the station. I probably lost it there, together with a few ideals. I don't think I'll go back for it. After all it's only a watch. SHANGHAI LILY I can't replace your ideals but I'll buy you another watch when we get to Shanghai. HARVEY Don't bother. I'm rather glad I lost it. (01:05:20)** ** SHANGHAI LILY I don't know if I ought be grateful to you or not? HUI FEI It's of no consequence. I didn't do it for you. Death canceled his debt to me. ** HARVEY That'll keep you for awhile. MAJOR (Bonsoir, Madame. Bonsoir, Monsieur) ** ** ** ** ** ** MRS. HAGGERTY Good evening. SAM I'll be glad when I get to Shanghai. MRS. HAGGERTY So will I. SAM How's the invalid coming along, Doctor? HARVEY He'll be alright in a few weeks . SAM That's more than I can say for myself. I bet if you opened me up right now you'd find my nerves tangled up like a mess of Chinese noodles. MRS. HAGGERTY I guess this journey hasn't done any of us any good. SAM All except that Chinese dame. She's twenty thousand to the good for settling the hash of the honorable Mr. Chang. I wish I'd taken a crack at him first. How 'bout you Major? MAJOR (French) SAM I'm telling you, it's a lucky thing that you're here. MRS. HAGGERTY I won't feel right until I get back to my boardinghouse. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Good evening. MRS. HAGGERTY Good evening. MAJOR (Bonsoir, Monsieur) SAM Good evening. MRS. HAGGERTY I've never been so shocked in my life. I suppose the Chinese girl deserves all she is getting. But as for the other lady. Well, I'm not going to say anything. Of all the brazen creatures. Playing the gramophone. Why she's the most terrible woman I've ever met. I don't see how she can look the others in the eye. Going off with the late Mr. Chang after the way he treated us. Bad enough she tried it before he held up the train. But after the way he tortured poor Mr. Baum... REVEREND CARMICHAEL Look here Mrs. Haggerty, I think you're doing the woman an injustice. I don't know what causes her to behave that way, but I am sure there is a whole lot more behind this than what appears on the surface. HARVEY Mr. Carmichael, when I had the pleasure of making your acquaintance yesterday, you volunteered an amazingly correct diagnosis of Shanghai Lily, and I see no reason for you to have changed it. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Look here, Captain Harvey, I happen to know she prayed all night for your safety. HARVEY I'd give anything in the world to believe the way you do, but I heard from her own lips that she was leaving with Chang. REVEREND CARMICHAEL That's rubbish. HARVEY I wish it were. SAM Defending that dame. I'm pretty liberal-minded on the subject of betting but I wouldn't back his viewpoint for all the rice in China. MRS. HAGGERTY Neither would I. REVEREND CARMICHAEL I'd like to talk to you alone. SHANGHAI LILY I don't wish to talk to anybody. REVEREND CARMICHAEL I'm sorry to have to insist, but I must talk to you. SHANGHAI LILY If you are thinking of reforming me, you might as well save yourself the trouble. REVEREND CARMICHAEL I'm not trying to reform you! I'm not trying to reform anybody right now. All I want is to settle something that's been puzzling me all day. Why did you decide to leave with that barbarian who was killed, by her, this morning? SHANGHAI LILY What makes you want to know? Curiosity? REVEREND CARMICHAEL You prayed last night. Probably for the first time in years. This morning you were to shamelessly leave with Chang. There's something wrong there. You can 't tell me that a human being can do two things like that within six hours. SHANGHAI LILY Although it's nobody's affair but mine, I might tell you if you promise not to repeat it. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Of course I won't repeat it. I came in hear to find out for myself. I'm not interested in the others. SHANGHAI LILY He was going to deprive Captain Harvey of his eye sight. I had no other choice. (01:10:00)** ** REVEREND CARMICHAEL Does Captain Harvey know that? SHANGHAI LILY Does he act as if he did? REVEREND CARMICHAEL He certainly does not. Despite the fact that I gave you my word not to tell anyone, I'm going to tell him this. SHANGHAI CARMICHAEL You're not going to do anything of the kind. Mr. Carmichael it may seem odd for me to use your language, but it's purely a question of faith. You see, once upon a time we loved each other. We parted and I threw my life away because I didn't care to bargain for love with words. I haven't changed since then and neither has he. REVEREND CARMICHAEL You're still in love with him, aren't you? SHANGHAI LILY Yes. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Is he still in love with you? SHANGHAI LILY I doubt it. REVEREND CARMICHAEL You're right. Love without faith like religion without faith doesn't amount to very much. I don't suppose I can help you. SHANGHAI LILY No. HARVEY Well, sir, did you find out what kind of a woman she is? REVEREND CARMICHAEL I found out enough to realize she is worth a dozen of you. HARVEY I have no exaggerated idea of my own value, but just exactly what did she say to make you so emphatic on that point? REVEREND CARMICHAEL She made me promise not to tell anyone, particularly to not tell you. But there is no restriction to my saying that you're a profound fool. HARVEY Be that as it may, you evidently place a great deal of faith in what Shanghai Lily says. REVEREND CARMICHAEL I know you men of science regard me and my kind as meddlesome fanatics but I'd rather have one grain of my faith than all your scientific disbelief. ** SIGN READS Shanghai Express 4 hours late. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** SHANGHAI LILY You haven't a cigarette, have you, Doc? HARVEY You appear to be nervous. Sleep would do you more good. SHANGHAI LILY What makes you think I'm nervous? HARVEY For one thing, your hands are trembling. SHANGHAI LILY That's because you touched me, Doc. HARVEY I've been wanting to talk to you, Madeline. Mr. Carmichael tells me you prayed for me last night. I can't quite reconcile that with what followed. If you did pray for me, which I doubt, do you mind telling me why? SHANGHAI LILY I would have done that for anybody, Doc. Good night. (01:15:20)** ** SIGN READS Shanghai. ** SAM Good ol' Shanghai, I never thought I'd see you again. MAJOR (French) MADAME ROBOUD (French) REPORTER 1 Did you kill him with a knife or a revolver? REPORTER 2 Is your home in Peking or is it Shanghai? REPORTER 3 Do you spell your name H-U-Y F-E-I? REPORTER 4 You killed him with a knife, didn't you? HUI FEI (Chinese) CARY Welcome to Shanghai, Mr. Carmichael. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Oh, thank you very much. Good morning. How are you? It is very kind of you to come down here to meet me. MAJOR (Madame Roboud, monsieur) MADAME ROBOUD (Enchantee, monsieur) MAJOR (Au revoir, madame) MRS. HAGGERTY Good bye. MAJOR (Madame Roboud, madame) MRS. HAGGERTY Pleased to meet you, good bye. MAJOR (French) SAM Good bye, Mrs. Haggerty. Glad to have made your acquaintance. MRS. HAGGERTY Likewise Mr. Salt, good bye. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Good bye, Mrs. Haggerty. MRS. HAGGERTY Good bye. SAM Good bye, Captain Harvey. HARVEY Mr. Salt. SAM I owe you my life and I'm not the man to forget it. Although between you and me, it isn't worth much. ENGLISH SOLDIER This is yours, isn't it? HARVEY Yes, that's right. ENGLISH SOLDIER I'll put it in the car. You won't be long, will you? HARVEY No, I'll come right away. SAM We would've been in a pretty pickle if you hadn't been the best saw bones in all of China. DOC Hello, Harvey. HARVEY Doc, how are you? DOC We thought you'd never show up. HARVEY I always show up like the proverbial bad headache. SAM I hope you pull the governor General through and if you ever want to bet on those Gee gees in the Shanghai sweepstakes you... REVEREND CARMICHAEL Good bye. It's nice to have the journey over, isn't it? SHANGHAI LILY Good bye, Mr. Carmichael. REVEREND CARMICHAEL Good luck. Come along, Cary. MAJOR (Au revoir, mademoiselle) SHANGHAI LILY (Au revoir, Major) MAJOR Madame Roboud, my sister. MADAME ROBOUD (Enchantee, mademoiselle) ** ** ** ** ** ** MAJOR (French) MADAME ROBOUD (Merci, mademoiselle, merci) SHANGHAI LILY (French) MAJOR (Au revoir, mademoiselle) SHANGHAI LILY (Au revoir) ** ENGLISH SOLDIER All set, Harvey. HARVEY Alright, I'll be along in a minute. I've got to attend to something. ENGLISH SOLDIER Righto. We'll wait. HARVEY Forgive me for following you a moment ago, Madeline. I was afraid of losing you. SHANGHAI LILY I was only buying you another watch. HARVEY What good is a watch without you? SHANGHAI LILY I wish I could replace everything else, too. Good bye, Donald. HARVEY I'm not gonna let you go out of my life. Everything else has become so unimportant. I don't care whether you were going to leave with another man or not. Nor do I want to know the reason. All I want is another chance for a new start. I'll be different. You'll never have cause for regret. Please forgive me for my lack of faith. Please do. I know I have no right to ask you, even to listen to me. SHANGHAI LILY It's very easy to listen to you, Donald. You know I love you. I always have and I always will. HARVEY I don't deserve that. I know I behaved badly. SHANGHAI LILY Perhaps it was my fault. I should have told you everything. HARVEY There's only one thing I want you to tell me, Madeline. SHANGHAI LILY What's that? HARVEY How in the name of Confucius can I kiss you with all these people around? SHANGHAI LILY But, Donald. There's no one here but you and I. Besides, many lovers come to railroad stations to kiss without attracting attention. THE END