:13:02
The villagers put up the bribe money
for your escape.
:13:04
I think we're entitled to find out
what kind of skipper you are.
:13:08
I've knocked around these waters
from Port Arthur to Singapore...
:13:11
in every kind of a ship,
under half a dozen flags.
:13:16
- Does that answer your question?
- Quite so.
:13:18
Could the illustrious captain
take a ship to Hong Kong without maps?
:13:24
I never tried it without maps...
:13:27
but this coast is littered with wrecks
that have tried it with them.
:13:31
Still, you have navigated
these dangers many times.
:13:34
It could be done.
:13:37
Capt. Wilder,
you may reject our unworthy plan...
:13:40
and travel your own way to freedom.
:13:42
In that event, we only request
sealed lips beyond these village walls.
:13:46
One unguarded word
and our 180 lives would be forfeited.
:14:06
Our people have chosen
to leave Red China.
:14:08
Plus goats, ducks, pigs,
and a number of trained canaries.
:14:12
We can no longer live in honor...
:14:14
under the hawks and dogs
who now sit in Peiping.
:14:16
For more than a year,
we have planned every detail.
:14:20
It was one of God's footsteps
that brought you to Amoy.
:14:23
Now we are ready.
:14:25
We ask you to guide us
through Formosa Strait to freedom.
:14:29
- 300 miles down Blood Alley?
- Quite so.
:14:34
You have no charts.
What do you expect to use for a ship?
:14:38
There is but one in the harbor
suitable for our plan.
:14:40
- The ferryboat.
- The ferryboat?
:14:43
A lousy stern-wheeler?
:14:46
Why, that wouldn't last 10 minutes
in Blood Alley.
:14:48
I've watched that relic for two years now.
:14:51
When it's not broken down,
you couldn't get 6 knots out of her.
:14:54
Eight.
:14:55
With that added speed, you could
probably get clear to the outer harbor...
:14:59
before the patrol boat
climbed on your backs.