" Sophia""s unpleasant, domineering mother-in-law hoped to improve the royal blood line by having Sophia marry her no-good simpleton nephew.The visual scope of the film paralleled what was portrayed in other western epics of its era, such asDuel in the Sun (1946)andThe Big Country (1958).Don""t you know that you""re handsome? Do you know what I""ve always told Ellen? That you""re a prince in disguise." They vowed to "fix" the problem together.At a paramilitary outpost in Western China, misguided nationalist General Yang (Anthony Wong Chau-Sang) was informed by his scar-faced lover and second-in-command Colonel Choi (Jessey Meng), that the O""Connells were in Shanghai, in possession of the Eye of Shangri-La.