There were many passengers of various and different backgrounds who were boarding into the first-class compartments, comprising the main principals of the film (including two ""fallen women""):Hui Fei (Anna May Wong), an Eurasian (but American-bred) prostitute, with a suspect background, who appeared to be running awayShanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich), a European lady also with a questionable reputation (a "courtesan")Captain Donald Harvey (Clive Brook), a stalwart British medical doctor on a mission to operate on the Governor-General of ShanghaiReverend Carmichael (Lawrence Grant), a fervent Christian missionary, judgmental and impatientMrs..Y""know, I...I like a man who watches things go on around.It means he""llmake his marksomeday." The stranger dressed in buckskin and packing a single pearl-handled revolver in his stud-decorated holster is offered water to drink from a water dipper.In 1969, however, his fortunes began o decline.He fell to a 22 share.The following year, his wife died, and he was left a childless widower with an 8 rating and a 12 share.When the crew of extraterrestrials realize hat there are intruders around them, one of the aliens at the spaceship""s gangplank hatchway sends out a communications-homing signal from his heart, signalling danger and alerting the others to immediately return to the ship.