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Rating: 6.5 stars

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kino lorber 1930s China mercenary gun runner revolutionary warlord femme fatale train shanghai

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The General Died at Dawn (1936)

Directed by Lewis Milestone

Action | Drama | War

Overview

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O’Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang’s tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.

Rated NR | Length 98 minutes

Actors

Gary Cooper | Madeleine Carroll | Akim Tamiroff | Dudley Digges | Porter Hall | William Frawley | J.M. Kerrigan | Philip Ahn | Lee Tung Foo | Leonid Kinskey | Val Duran | Willie Fung | Hans Fuerberg | John O'Hara | Russell Hicks | Barnett Parker | Frank Young | Irene Bennett | Spencer Chan | Suey Chan | Thomas Chan | Sarah Edwards | Paul Harvey | Charles Leong | Lewis Milestone | Clifford Odets | Harold Tong | Kam Tong | Hans von Morhart | Walter Wong | Swan Yee | Harry Yip | Carol de Castro | Dudley Lee | Walter Lem | Tommy Lee | George Wong Wah | Tom Ung | Taft Jung | Sam Labrador | Richard Young | Jung Kai | Harry Leong | Paul Tom | Loo Loy | Wong Fong | Leo Abbey | Bob Jow | George Chan

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Viewing Notes

Maybe I’m just not a big Gary Cooper fan. His acting is fine, but he’s just too clean cut all-American for me to suspend disbelief when he plays these grittier roles. Regardless, still a good film.

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