Tommy Chan: [trapped in a cave-in as Charlie taps Morse Code] Do you think you'll get through, Pop?
Charlie Chan: If not, Number Three Son and father will join honorable ancestors.
Birmingham Brown: Mr. Chan, tell your ancestors to move over and make room for me.

- Mantan Moreland (as Birmingham Brown) in The Shanghai Cobra (1945)

Tommy Chan: Pop, I want to talk to you as man to man.
Charlie Chan: I am ready, but you still have few years to go.
Birmingham Brown: That's right.

- Mantan Moreland (as Birmingham Brown) in The Shanghai Cobra (1945)