She was lauded with compliments for her beauty and the evening""s performance, but put off her opportunity to privately speak to the Premier until after dinner.First angered until the blonde tenant appears, he sees this as an opportunity to invite her down to have a cool drink, but first she must get dressed.Three acting awards were passed over: Jack Lemmon for Best Actor, Shirley MacLaine for Best Actress and Jack Kruschen for Best Supporting Actor.Your enemies will never know the glorious death that was yours and your men""s....Yang, listen to me.Such great honor should not live in a closet.It needs the open air and daylight.Your enemies must not laugh at the memory of General Yang.Coolies must not laugh.Peasants, old men, women must not spit on your name....Someone must be left, Yang.Someone who has seen this last, glorious page in the history of General Yang""s life....If you stop all our mouths, who will be left to speak tenderly of Yang? No one, I tell you, no one!...Yes, I will tell it.Yes.Of your greatness and the obedience of your men.Gentlemen in clubs will hear it.Crowds at the dog races will talk of your guards.Shanghai diplomats will know it.Gunboat captains will tell it by radio....Every great paper in he world must tell how Yang""s guard went to death with him.The London Times, The New York Times...Let us go....All of us, o see no stain or blemish is left on the memory of Yang.Will it be worth it?...I swear, this is one true thing....Yes.Yang, before you fall asleep!"The dying Yang followed O""Hara""s wishes and ordered his soldiers to shoot at hemselves in a mass sacrifice.Instead, it would be provided by a solo instrument -- a zither.The jaunty but haunting musical score by Viennese composer/performer Anton Karas lingers long after the film""s viewing with its twangy, mermerizing, lamenting, disconcerting (and sometimes irritating) hurdy-gurdy tones.