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The General Died at Dawn

1936

Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / War

The General Died at Dawn

1936

Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / War

Available in: 720p.BluRay

100% TOMATOMETER · 6 reviews

52% AUDIENCE · 100 ratings

6.5/10 · 1.5K

720p.BluRay

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Lewis Milestone

Top cast

J.M. Kerrigan as Leach

Russell Hicks as American with No Matches

Hans Fuerberg as Yang's Military Advisor

Sarah Edwards as American's Companion

Tech specs

720p.BLU

900.49 MB

1280*944

English 2.0

Passed

23.976 fps

1 hr 38 min

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Comments 1

YuNoHu 1902 days ago

Excellent audio/video quality. Thank you very much for uploading this request.

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IMDb reviews

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6 / 10

The acting is great but the story frustrating

steve d

The acting is great but the story frustrating.

1 / 10

Now I know why this movie died, too

R T

Now I know why this movie died, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7 / 10

The General Died at Dawn, the title itself

michael D

The General Died at Dawn, the title itself is enough of a giveaway as to what happens. But the circumstances leading up to the death of Chinese Warlord Akim…

The General Died at Dawn, the title itself is enough of a giveaway as to what happens. But the circumstances leading up to the death of Chinese Warlord Akim Tamiroff is quite a tale. The setting for this film is Kuomintang China where the government of Chiang Kai-Shek doesn't have its writ run very far. Most of China in the Twenties is controlled by various provincial warlords. In fact a case could be made that the Chinese Communists under Mao Tse-tung was viewed as just another warlord. But that's a whole different story. American adventurer Gary Cooper has a money belt with a whole lot of cash in it entrusted to him by the opposition faction to Akim Tamiroff. He's supposed to make contact with William Frawley in Shanghai who when he's not drinking the hotel bar dry, runs guns. But Madeleine Carroll and her father Porter Hall who are working for Tamiroff help Tamiroff part Cooper from his money. In the case of Coop, he's real guilty of thinking with his gonads. Then Porter Hall steals the money for himself and the film gets real interesting. There's one big flaw in the film, occurring when Madeleine Carroll who starts falling for Cooper, refers to him as the "O'Hara Boy." O'Hara is Cooper's character name. Coop was 35 when this film was made and referring to him as 'boy' was ludicrous. But then again a man of 35 should have been on better guard. Film might have worked better if someone younger like Robert Taylor or Tyrone Power played the part of O'Hara. Or Clifford Odets's script should have given Carroll a more elaborate ruse to play on Cooper. Two major oriental roles were given to occidental players. Casting like Akim Tamiroff as the warlord Yang and Dudley Digges as Mr. Wu who employs Cooper would never happen today. But both do well and come to think of it Tamiroff does have an oriental strain in his ancestry. One bit of casting really hits home. By all accounts William Frawley was hardly the lovable tightwad Fred Mertz in real life. He was a misanthropic alcoholic in the tradition of W.C.Fields and a mean drunk when he was loaded which was often back then. His role as Brighton, the misanthropic, mean, and thoroughly racist gunrunner was way closer to the real Bill Frawley. Gary Cooper in The General Died at Dawn was playing a role that Humphrey Bogart would probably have done in the forties. It was always joked that Cooper's dialog consisted of 'yup' and 'nope.' But the way he gets himself, Carroll and Digges out of a real predicament in the end called for quite a gift of gab.

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