Shanghai Express (1932)

Louise Closser Hale: Mrs. Haggerty

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Quotes 

• Mrs. Haggerty : Me?

  Chinese Rebel Officer : Yes, Follow me upstairs.

  Mrs. Haggerty : Everybody told me there wasn't the slightest danger. I made a point of asking.

• Mrs. Haggerty : [to her dog]  We know what year it is, don't we?

• Customs Official : What have you got in that basket, missus?

  Mrs. Haggerty : Just a little snack of lunch me niece put up for me.

  Customs Official : Ain't got any animals in there?

  Mrs. Haggerty : I hope not.

• Mrs. Haggerty : Newsboy! See here, wait a bit. This magazine you sold me says August 15, 1927.

  Newsboy : Latest number, madam.

  Mrs. Haggerty : But I tell you it's four years old!

  Newsboy : Latest number, madam.

  Mrs. Haggerty : Is this 1931, or am I out of me mind?

  Major Lenard : Madame, je regrette, mais je ne vous comprends pas. Je ne parle pas anglais. Parlez-vous français?

  [He turns to Sam Salt] 

  Major Lenard : Parlez-vous français, vous?

  Sam Salt : She oughta keep it for her history and get herself an education.

  Major Lenard : Huh?

• 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 : It's a bit lonely on the 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 boardinghouse 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, madam.

  Hui Fei : I must confess I don't quite know the standard of respectability that you demand in your boardinghouse, Mrs. Haggerty.

  Mrs. Haggerty : I've made a terrible mistake. I'd better look after me dog.

  [She bumps into the Reverend Mr. Carmichael] 

  Mrs. Haggerty : I beg your pardon.

  Reverend Mr. Carmichael : I beg yours.

• Mrs. Haggerty : There's a dining car this time?

  Peiping Ticket Agent : Yes, madam. Everything but a Turkish bath.

  Mrs. Haggerty : Hmph!

• Mrs. Haggerty : Did he get the jewels, Mr. Salt?

  [He shows her his empty lapel] 

  Mrs. Haggerty : Oh, what a shame.

  [Salt takes more jewelry out of a pocket] 

  Mrs. Haggerty : Then he didn't take them after all.

  Sam Salt : He got the phony ones.

  Mrs. Haggerty : Phony?

  Sam Salt : These are phony too. The real ones are in the safe in Shanghai.

  Mrs. Haggerty : I suppose they're imitation also.

  Sam Salt : You don't want to make a bet on that, do you, lady?

  Mrs. Haggerty : I never bet with gamblers.

  Sam Salt : I didn't think you did.

• Mrs. Haggerty : [returning from her interrogation]  Mr. Chang, all dressed up in a soldier's uniform!

  Sam Salt : I know what he wants me for.

  [He flips up his lapel to show hidden jewelry] 

  Sam Salt : And I told him a Chinaman had no future.

• Mrs. Haggerty : I've never been so shocked in my life. I suppose the Chinese girl deserves all she's 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 any of us 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 Mr. Carmichael : Look here, Mrs. Haggerty, I think you're doing the woman an injustice. I don't know what caused her to behave that way, but I'm sure there's a whole lot more behind this than appears on the surface.

  Captain Donald 'Doc' 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 Mr. Carmichael : Look here, Captain Harvey, I happen to know that she prayed all night for your safety.

  Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey : I'd give anything in the world to believe the way you do, but I heard from her own lips she was leaving with Chang.

  Reverend Mr. Carmichael : That's rubbish!

  Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey : I wish it were.

  Sam Salt : Defending that dame. I'm pretty liberal on the subject of betting, but I wouldn't back his viewpoint for all the rice in China.

  Mrs. Haggerty : Neither would I.

• Sam Salt : How's the invalid coming along, Doctor?

  Captain Donald 'Doc' Harvey : He'll be all right in a few weeks, poor fellow.

  Sam Salt : 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 Salt : 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 about you, Major?

  Major Lenard : Je regarde beaucoup, monsieur, mais je ne comprends pas seulement qu'est-ce que vous dites.

  Sam Salt : [to Mrs. Haggerty]  I'm telling you, it's a lucky thing for him that you're here.

• Mrs. Haggerty : Waffles? Waffles? Waffles! Waffles? Waffles! Waffles! Ruff-ruff! Ruff-ruff, ruff-ruff-ruff-ruff!