West of Shanghai (1937)

Boris Karloff: Wu Yen Fang

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• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : It was easy. I am Fang.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : I'm sorry, my friend. In one hour you die... but I not let you die alone. I come watch.

  Jim Hallet : [Sarcastically]  Thanks, that'll be a big help.

• Jane Creed : You've killed thousands of people.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Too many people in China. I kill only man - only bad man. When I kill bad man, I feel good. I have did good deed.

  Jane Creed : And who decides whether a man is good or bad?

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : I do, I am Fang!

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : You come here buy interest in oil field?

  Gordon Creed : I offered him fifty thousand dollars for a quarter interest.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : You got that money here?

  Gordon Creed : Well, of course not. I never carry that amount with me.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Please not to lie. Do business China oil fields always cash.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : [to Galt, intending to refer to him as a 'loan shark']  Mr. Loan Fish?

  Myron Galt : You mean me, General?

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : You got my pen note... fifty thousand dollar?

  Myron Galt : Right here.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : You see, you got fifty thousand dollar I want.

  Myron Galt : I won't submit to being robbed. My government...

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : [Interrupting]  I not rob. You give; I take. Give!

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : This your woman I got here?

  Jim Hallet : I don't know, but I'm interested.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Is all right. I give her back to you. What one woman between friends?

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : [laciviously eying up the two women prisoners]  Ah, only two women! Too bad!

  [Indicating Lola] 

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : This one not so good.

  Lola Galt : What's the matter with me?

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Hair like straw; eye like fog; have wide mouth of fish.

  Lola Galt : Well, you're no geranium yourself!

  [Fang and Cheng take offense. Cheng pulls out his pistol] 

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : [Introducing himself to the Westerners in the room]  How you do? I am Fang. I speak most dang bad English. I think I make you understand.

  Dr. Abernathy : We understand, General. We are your prisoners.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : No, I your guest! But please not to leave the town. Tis not nice make Fang mad.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : I am good businessman, Mr. Cheng?

  Mr. Cheng : You are the grandfather of wisdom, Excellency.

• Jane Creed : [about his meteoric rise in rank]  But how did you manage it so quickly?

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : One day the captain is killed... I become captain. Next day the major... I am major. By and by the colonel... I become colonel. I kill the general myself.

  Jane Creed : And now you're a warlord.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Ah, is great life!

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : I had wish take - taken woman. Shouvenir. You like go with me?

  Lola Galt : No, thank you.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : I make you very happy.

  Lola Galt : I'm afraid I couldn't stand so much happiness.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : I am Fang.

  Lola Galt : I'm Lola!

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Alright. I don't want you anyhow. Not like woman who is tough guy.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : [Jane Creed Enters]  Ganbei. Tell the lady what that mean, Mr. Cheng.

  Mr. Cheng : Ganbei means bottoms up.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : I drink to you always. Bottoms up!

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Come, we take walk. Come! How old you are?

  Jane Creed : Twenty-three.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Oh! Too bad. That most dang old.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : How you like go campaign with me?

  Jane Creed : You wouldn't want me, I'm married.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Alright. I take your husband.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Not nice Mission lady kill man. Why you not turn other cheek?

  Jane Creed : Maybe that's because I'm only an apprentice missionary. I assure you, I won't hesitate to shoot you!

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : He is me! I am him.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Come, we drink. Ganbei, to me!

  Jim Hallet : To you?

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Of course, I am Fang.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : She has husband - who is bad man. She want my friend - who is good man. But, no take him? Very strange. My friend, you got plenty trouble.

  Jim Hallet : Plenty!

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Fang number one man this province.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Most unfortunate situation.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : How you get Captain Nui double cross me?

  Gordon Creed : Well, you can do almost anything with money. You know that, General.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Wisdom fall from your lip.

• Gordon Creed : General, let's get back to business. You know, you and I could make a much better deal than I made with Captain Nui.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : You mean you double cross him too?

  Gordon Creed : Why not? You're in this racket to make money, aren't you?

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : You very smart man. My friend, I give you most best deal anyone. You go leave here now and it not cost no money.

  Gordon Creed : What's the catch?

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : There's no catch. It's easy. I just go kill you.

  Gordon Creed : You must be joking General.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Do I look like joker? Do Mr. Cheng look like joker?

  Gordon Creed : General, what would you gain by doing this?

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Alive you no good. Dead you very good. Make two people happy.

  Gordon Creed : You mean you want to kill me so that my wife can marry Hallet?

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : It best way I think.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : I've seen man not fight for his money. I've seen man not fight for his life. Not before, have seen man not fight for his woman.

• Gordon Creed : But, General, if its money you want, why, I'll give you plenty of money. Anything that you want.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : It's not I no want money. It's that I no want you. I do this myself Mr. Cheng.

  Gordon Creed : Well, at least fight fair. You both have guns, give me a chance.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : But if I give you gun, you maybe shoot me! You t'ink I am dang fool?

• Jane Creed : General, now, don't let them do this to him. There must be something you can do to save him!

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : It make me very sad.

  Lola Galt : If it's money you want, I'll make my father give you every dollar he has.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Oh, so you love this Jim too? Hmm, two women love him. Must be very good man.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Your servant cause plenty trouble for me. But, is alright. I am Fang.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : How many times I got to kill you Mr. Creed?

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : I let you die with me. What more you want?

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : How much you weigh?

  Jane Creed : I don't think that's any of your business gentlemen.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Alright. I no care.

• Gen. Wu Yen Fang : You come with me, I give you beautiful, swell time. And you gain happiness you. Not so dang bad for me too. Well, what you say? You know, if I want, is easy take you.

  Jane Creed : You wouldn't dare do that.

  Gen. Wu Yen Fang : Oh, yes. I most dang daring man in China.