After striking and knocking out his female guide, he ripped up the painting into long strips and consumed it, and then attacked a second employee who entered the room.Hui Fe fortuitously freed the Shanghai Express and all its captives to continue their journey - with arrival four hours late in Shanghai.On the street, he obligingly picks up and waves a red warning flag that has fallen off a passing construction truck.The successful film, both critically and financially, soon became the second biggest hit of the year, behindThe Robe (1953)(the first CinemaScope film) and ahead ofShane (1953).Course, you have to read between the lines.She described her new-found understanding of him - confessing afterwards that she had read the dust-jacket blurb under his picture:You""re a bachelor.