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The General Died at Dawn (1936)

The General Died at Dawn (1936)

Drama Thriller
Release Date: 1936, November 17
Directors: Lewis Milestone
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Russell Hicks, J.M. Kerrigan, Sarah Edwards, Richard Young, Leonid Kinskey, Spencer Chan, Gary Cooper, Tommy Lee, William Frawley, Paul Harvey, Akim Tamiroff, Philip Ahn

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.

Keywords:

murder mercenary 1930s father daughter relationship rescue oppression somber war crimes adventurer deception warlord greed mass suicide shanghai, china arms deal renegade chinese civil war gunshot wound american in china