"Until we do away with the type of neighborhood that produced this boy, ten will spring up to take his place, a hundred, a thousand. Until we wipe out the slums and rebuild 'em, knock on any door and you may find Nick Romano."

"George Macready - Dist. Atty. Kerman"

"In every man's life, there are pinpoints of time that govern his destiny."

"Oh, sure, sure. I know—there must be some mistake. And poor Nick is innocent, and what a heel I am to be sitting here playing chess when he needs me. Well, you're wrong, honey. If he's innocent, this is the first time."

"I can still teach you a few, kid. You're just a tin-horn thug, and you always will be. You haven't got the guts to be anything else!"

"Chen Kuan-tai as pirate"

"Patrick Ryecart as Captain Glessing"

"Dickey Beer as Breck's crew"

"Pat Gorman as British Merchant"

"Nicholas Gecks as Horatio"

"Carol Gillies as Mrs. Brock"

"Michael C. Gwynne as Cooper"

"Barbara Keogh as Mrs. Quance"

"Chuang Cheng as Jin Qua"

"Derrick Branche as Vargas"

"Rosemarie Dunham as Mrs. Fothergill"

"Robert Easton as Zergeyev"

"Richard Foo as Lin Din"

"John Bennett as Orlov"

"Norman Rodway as Aristotle Quance"

"Bill Leadbitter as Gorth Brock"

"Russell Wong as Gordon Chen"

"Katy Behean as Mary Sinclair"

"Tim Guineeas Culum Struan"

"Kyra Sedgwick as Tess Brock"

"John Stanton as Tyler Brock"

"Janine Turner as Shevaun Tillman"

"China was an unknown, forbidden land. For four centuries, her shores had not been touched by the West. But in the early days of the great sailing ships. Western merchants, drawn by the wonders of tea and silk and jade teased at her coastline with the twin seductions of bribery and opium. In the south of China's vastness on the edge of the inland city of Canton they boldly established a trading center and defied the emperor to act."

"Bryan Brown as Dirk Struan"

"Joan Chen as May-May"

"Jeremy Irons - G. H. Hardy"

"Don't you see? An equation has no meaning to me unless it expresses a thought of God."

"Devika Bhise - Janaki"

"Dev Patel - Srinivasa Ramanujan"

"Stephen Fry - Sir Francis Spring"

"Toby Jones - John Edensor Littlewood"

"Kevin McNally - Major MacMahon"

"Roger Narayan - iyengar"

"Jeremy Northam - Bertrand Russell"

"Arundhati Nag - Ramanujan's mother"

"Enzo Cilenti - Doctor"

"Dhritiman Chatterjee - Narayana Iyer"

"Shazad Latif - Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis"