The Shanghai Gesture (1941)

Gene Tierney: Poppy

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• Poppy : You don't drink, Mother Gin Sling? Is your name Chinese or English?

  'Mother' Gin Sling : Indeed Gin Sling is English. It's a nickname as common in this part of the world as the drink sold over the counter.

  Poppy : Why Gin Sling? Why not Whiskey Soda?

  'Mother' Gin Sling : There was a girl called Whiskey Soda too. And another one - Martini. And one called Scotch Highball, another Benedictine. In other places I might have been called Rose, or Violet, or Lily, or, eh, even Poppy.

• Poppy : You said Doctor Omar. Doctor of what?

  Omar : Doctor of nothing, Miss Smith. It sounds important and hurts no one. Unlike most doctors.

• Poppy : The other places are like kindergardens compared with this. It smells so incredibly evil! I didn't think such a place existed except in my own imagination. It has a ghastly familiarity like a half-remembered dream. *Anything* could happen here... any moment...