The General Died at Dawn
1936•NR•1h 38m•6.5•Released
DramaThriller
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
Writer
Clifford Odets
Languages
English
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Gary Cooper
O'Hara
Madeleine Carroll
Judy Perrie
Akim Tamiroff
General Yang
Dudley Digges
Mr. Wu
Porter Hall
Peter Perrie
William Frawley
Brighton
J.M. Kerrigan
Leach
Philip Ahn
Oxford
Lee Tung Foo
Mr. Chen
Leonid Kinskey
Stewart
Val Duran
Wong
Willie Fung
Bartender
Hans Fuerberg
Yang's Military Advisor
John O'Hara
Newspaper Reporter
Russell Hicks
No Matches Man (uncredited)
Production
Company
Paramount Pictures
Producer
William LeBaron
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