Top cast:Antonio Banderas,Salma Hayek,Harvey Guillén
Director:John Madden
Genre:Western
Region:Egypt
Year:1999
Storyline:In the voice of a young boy, he cried out: "Mommy, don""t let me drown.Mommy!"The killer""s demise caused him to revert back to his normal childhood self, a miraculous transformation, when the oxic waste subsided.From his perspective, Charles"" vision blurs as he reels and swoons dizzyingly in front of her.While holding onto her leg and fiddling with her shoe strap, he explains how he is a snake-enthusiast and an ale heir:It""s funny to be even here at your feet talking about beer? You see, I don""t like beer, bock beer, lager beer, or steam beer.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.Ann King (Geraldine Fitzgerald in her exceptional American film debut), the heroine""s best friend and confidential secretary, intercepts the call and scolds him for disturbing them at "this unholy hour of the morning.The 1938 film had a sequel of sorts,Robin and Marian (1976), with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn as middle-aged lovers.