Rather than follow the telegraph operator o the dance, the film cut directly to the dance where the telegraph operator enters." The group of four fled from the temple""s crumbling debris, and before riding off on horseback into a setting sun, Henry Sr.Haggerty (Louise Closser Hale), a boardinghouse-keeper in ShanghaiHenry Chang (Warner Oland), a mysterious Eurasian merchant, actually a cruel war lord and Commander-in-Chief of revolutionary, rebel troops of soldiersSam Salt (Eugene Pallette), an American gamblerEric Baum (Gustav von Seyffertitz), a German invalid masquerading as a coal banker - who was actually an opium dealerMajor Lenard (Emile Chautard), a uniformed French officer, although disgraced and removed from military serviceOne of the lady passengers on the train was notorious adventuress Shanghai Lily.Across the street was an unfinished, semi-built skyscraper tower.Inside the arches was a crowd-filled corridor with storefronts on the ground level, and many levels of apartment dwellings rising up on either side.