My father was white....I""m not proud of my white blood").Salt replied: "What future is there being a Chinaman? You""re born, eat your way through a handful of rice, and you die.As he camera pans along the railing, it is hinted that Pike is fabulously wealthy - heir to a brewery fortune." The well-dressed man, Charles Weston (Sam Hardy), a theatrical agent, is invited on board the vessel by First Mate Jack (John) Driscoll (Bruce Cabot) and is told: "Come on board.In its explicitly caricaturist presentation of the KKK as heroes and Southern blacks as villains and violent rapists and threats to the social order, it appealed to white Americans who subscribed to the mythic, romantic view (similar to Sir Walter Scott historical romances) of the Old Plantation South.