""In their hurry to get to the Plaza Hotel (a secure symbol of material success and luxury), he lies about his secretary""s physical condition and rudely, irresponsibly, and inconsiderately commandeers a taxicab for both of them from another waiting customer.The Boy""s prank backfired miserably when the second cop - the Law (Noah Young) - became enraged over the failed practical joke.You can continue your school work, and after hours, work in my store.Lane Norwood (signature)Shortly later in a very brief scene, poor-white worker Sock Fisher (Erville Alderson), Lilly""s suitor, responded was suspicions of Norwood""s job offer for Marvin as a night clerk in his company""s office-store: "He""ll use Marvin for his own ends.The film was remade asStolen Hours (1963)and as a made-for-TV movie in 1976 with Elizabeth Montgomery.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.