Grandi lets her leave, emphasizing that nobody was holding or keeping her there against her will: "Nobody laid a hand on you.It became Dietrich""s biggest US box-office hit, taking in a record amount of $3.7 million for Paramount.It was remade asNight Plane from Chungking (1943)and asPeking Express (1951).Plot SynopsisIn the opening scene, a ""Shanghai Express"" train was being boarded and loaded with baggage at the bustling Peking Railroad Station.He back-sassed a free man.They got their rules, and we ain""t got nothin"" to do with that.Would probably have happened o him sooner or later anyway - a complainer like him.He gotta learn the rules, the same as anybody else.Luke: Yeah, them poor old Bosses need all the help they can get.Dragline: You tryin"" to say somethin""? You gotta flap your mouth.(His words are drowned out by the last bell).One of these days, I""m gonna have to flap me up some dust with it.Carr accounts for all of the 50 prisoners after the last bell: "Forty-nine, one in the box, Boss."One day while the men are digging a road ditch in the scorching sun, a blonde-haired, shapely and sexy young woman (Joy Harmon) (credited as "Lucille") in a neighboring house prepares to wash her car, sending the men into a voyeuristic frenzy." However, he could choose Gryffindor if he wanted ("The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account").The title of the film is an anomaly and a clue to the absurd, confused plot in which no one is what he/she appears to be - there is no sharply delineated N by NW on a compass - it is an improbable direction.