Christian Bale credited as playing...
Jim
- Jim: If the Americans land, the Japanese will fight.
- Dr. Rawlins: You admire the Japanese?
- Jim: Well, they're brave, aren't they?
- Dr. Rawlins: That's important, is it, Jim?
- Jim: It's a good thing if you want to win a war.
- Dr. Rawlins: But we don't want them to win, do we. Remember, we're British.
- Jim: Yes. I've never been there.
- Jim: I was dreaming about God.
- Mary Graham: What did he say?
- Jim: Nothing. He was playing tennis. Perhaps that's where God is all the time and that's why you can't see Him when you're awake, do you think?
- Mary Graham: I don't know. I don't know about God.
- Jim: Perhaps He's our dream... and we're His.
- [Frank and Basie are about to leave Jim in the street]
- Jim: [desperately] Basie, first I could show you some rich pickings. Hundreds of houses left empty. I could show you some of the houses I lived in before Frank found me. They were luxuriant!
- Basie: Luxuriant? You had good sense being born there, Jim. I'm sure there was good living.
- Jim: There certainly was good living, Basie. There - there was opulence!
- Basie: Heh heh. Opulence. Frank, we'll go and take a look at some of these houses. Let's go, Frank. Opulence.
- [Nurses attempt to wake a sickly man]
- Jim: Can I have his shoes when he's dead?
- Dr. Rawlins: God you're a pragmatist, Jim.
- [Jim's hassling the truck driver on the way to Soochow]
- Jim: Do you know where we are? We're here, see? And now we have to turn left. Do you hear me? When I say turn left, you turn left! When I say turn right, turn right! You have to do what I say otherwise we'll never get to Soochow then you'll be shot!
- Jim: [about the Japanese troops camped nearby] It almost looks as if they're waiting for something to happen...
- John Graham, Jim's father: Yes.
- Jim: They didn't look angry or anything...
- Maxton: It's not their anger; it's their patience.
- Jim: Mrs. Victor, why did the Japanese close the school?
- Mrs. Victor: Because they wanted to punish the grownups.