Hunt wouldn""t shoot Nyah when she demanded it - instead, he vowed to save her, although he couldn""t escape the building with her: "We""ve got 19 hours and 58 minutes.And they also engaged in a foot/bicycle pursuit through a shopping area, restaurant, and rooftop after two Chinese criminals - one of whom (who was later discovered to be the "shooter" using a gun with bullets that matched slugs in the bodies on the freighter) was strangled afterwards on a rooftop by Ku.Four of the stars, John and Lionel Barrymore (first popular in silent cinema), Wallace Beery, and Jean Hersholt, appeared in both films.The charming stories, a dozen in all to represent each of the twelve months of the year, are expressed in the film in its musical numbers.