Shanghai Express Page #2

I'll wait for you in the diner.

- Bon apptit, mademoiselle.

- Merci.

- Bon apptit, monsieur.

- Thank you, Major.

- Et bonsoir.

- Good evening, Major.

You're very cruel.

I reserve the privilege

of choosing my friends.

She's no friend of mine.

I was only trying to be decent.

- Professional courtesy?

- Call it what you like.

- New, isn't it?

- Yes.

- Bravery?

- Of sorts.

That's new too, isn't it?

Yes.

It's very becoming.

Merci, monsieur.

Attendez un moment.

- Dsirez-vous vous asseoir, madame?

- Merci, monsieur.

Don't let those sardines get away, Major.

Trs bien, mon vieux.

Pardon me, please.

I'm sorry.

- Good evening.

- Coming into dinner, Captain?

Yes, of course. After you, sir.

Shut off those fans. I'm an invalid.

If those fans are shut off,

the rest of us will be invalids soon.

- Can we sit here?

- Je vous en prie.

- Sit down, Major.

- Thank you.

Thank you.

What did he say?

He said we should get our passports

and go outside.

What do they want our passports for?

They are government troops,

they want us outside.

I won't get off. We'll all be killed.

The conductor promised me

there wouldn't be any trouble.

Don't get me excited. I'm trying to figure

the odds of getting out alive.

It's an outrage. I'm going to finish my dinner.

Mr Carmichael, I think you should consider

your dinner unimportant.

Arrtez a avant qu'on ait fini de dner.

I shall complain to my consul.

They can't do this to me.

I shouldn't get off, night air's bad for me.

Don't be silly, Mr Baum, we're in a civil war -

spy scares and firing squads.

I am a German citizen.

I have nothing to fear.

Ich bin ein deutscher Brger.

I'll take this off. They're after somebody

and they've got nothing on me.

O est-ce qu'il est encore?

J'ai assez de m'occuper de moi.

I don't know what you're saying, brother,

but don't say it again.

There you are, my boy.

All aboard!

A lot of fuss for one man.

Wonder why they arrested him.

Probably a revolutionary spy

trying to get back to his own lines.

- What do you want?

- It's a long journey, and a lonely one.

- Your compartment is made up, sir.

- Vous tes un bon garon.

Bonne nuit, monsieur. Dormez bien.

Someday that sardine inspector's

going to go too far.

Pardon me. Pardon me!

Verdammtes auslndisches Gesindel.

What did he say to you?

Something he'll probably have

occasion to regret.

I can't make head or tail out of you,

Mr Chang.

Are you Chinese, or are you white,

or what are you?

My mother was Chinese,

my father was white.

You look more like a white man.

I'm not proud of my white blood.

- You're not, are you?

- No, I'm not.

- Rather be a Chinaman?

- Yes.

What future is there?

You're born, eat some rice, and you die.

What a country! Let's have a drink.

Do you want to be alone, Doctor?

No, it's quite all right.

I was just going to turn in anyway.

Don't let me detain you.

I thought it was quite early.

- What time is it?

- 9:
30.

You still have the watch I gave you, Donald.

I was afraid you'd notice it.

- I had long hair then.

- I remember quite well.

Do you expect to stay in Shanghai a while?

I think so.

Then we ought to see a lot of each other.

Perhaps.

What have you been doing

since I saw you last?

Mostly service routine.

Couple of years in India after our smash-up.

I went back to England, then I was assigned

to an expedition in Manchuria.

Sounds as if you have been

rather lonesome, Doc.

I wasn't lonesome.

It was an active life full of excitement.

I suppose you mean women.

It was difficult to find someone

to take your place.

Did you try very hard?

Not particularly.

I didn't want to be hurt again.

Always a bit selfish, Doc,

thinking of your own hurt.

I can't accept your reproach.

I was the only one hurt.

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.

I was a fool to let you go out of my life.

I wish you could tell me

there'd been no other men.

I wish I could, Doc.

But five years in China is a long time.

I wish I had 'em back.

What would you have done with them?

There's a scheme of things. Sooner or later

we would have parted anyway.

- We might never have met again.

- We wouldn't have parted.

We'd have gone back to England,

married and been happy.

There are a lot of things I wouldn't have

done if I had those five years again.

There's only one thing I wouldn't have done.

What, for instance?

I wouldn't have bobbed my hair.

Good night, Donald.

- From one of your lovers?

- No.

- I wish I could believe you.

- Don't you?

Will you never learn to believe

without proof?

I believe you, Magdalen.

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.

Waffles? Waffles?

Waffles? Waffles!

Waffles! Waffles!

Everybody is to get dressed. You are to be

taken from the train at the station.

Please leave all your luggage behind.

This way, please.

- This way, please.

- Quite a reception.

Me?

Yes, follow me upstairs.

Everybody told me there wasn't

the slightest danger.

Looks like the finish.

- I'll give anybody 10-1 we don't get out alive.

- You're wrong.

They're rebel troops but they won't harm us.

Say, where's Mr Chang?

C'est vrai, il n'est pas l.

I wouldn't be surprised if he had

something to do with this.

There must be something serious

or they wouldn't have stopped this train.

There is nothing behind it but robbery.

They won't get one penny out of me.

Mr Sam Salt.

It's Mr Chang, all dressed up

in a soldier's uniform.

I know what he wants me for.

And I told him a Chinaman had no future.

Do you mean to say Mr Chang

is responsible for this outrage?

He is, the scoundrel.

Such impudence,

asking me if I had any wealthy friends.

I knew they were holding us for ransom.

I thought his face seemed familiar.

The government has offered 20,000

for his capture alive or dead.

It will be a great day for China

when that price is paid.

Mr Eric Baum.

He's the head man, all right.

It's bad for my heart to climb these stairs up.

Verdammte Treppe!

I'm an invalid.

Did he get the jewels, Mr Salt?

Oh, what a shame.

He didn't take them after all.

- He got the phoney ones.

- Phony?

These are phony, too.

The real ones are in the safe in Shanghai.

I suppose they're imitation also.

You don't want to make a bet

on that, do you?

- I never bet with gamblers.

- I didn't think you did.

What is your business, Mr Baum?

I've a coal mine near Calcutta.

A bankrupt coal mine.

You have no coal mine.

According to papers found in your luggage,

you deal in opium

and have shipped 12,000 pounds of it

into China in the last year.

You are wrong. I deal only in coal.

I don't traffic in forbidden merchandise.

Do you know that a Chinaman

dealing in opium is penalised by death?

You can't shoot me. I'll pay a fine.

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