Word: yang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William H. Donald, who has been attached at various times for a number of years to both Kidnapper Chang and Kidnappee Chiang. They alighted amid fog and semidarkness at Sian. Rabble soldiery on the airfield held hundreds of flaming torches. These were the troops of too-little-noted General Yang Fu-cheng...
Roughly speaking, the situation was that around Kidnappee Chiang were a few hundred troops of Kidnapper Chang and around them were a few thousand troops of General Yang, who might be considered as having highjacked the kidnapping. At much greater distance were thousands of troops of Kidnapper Chang's main army and also Nanking Government armies rushing toward Sian, while Nanking bomb ing planes of U. S. pattern wheeled ominously...
...outcome of Madeleine's getting started on the wrong side. To please her flabby, moribund father (Porter Hall), she agrees, in bitter conflict with the latent notability, in her, to lure Gary and his belt full of the people's money into the grasping yellow hands of General Yang, war lord and fiendish oppressor of some unnamed Chinese province. Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife plunged into the general's belly just before the crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments...
...with money to buy guns for the peasants' revolt, O'Hara lets himself be diverted from his purpose by a pretty girl (Madeleine Carroll) who persuades him to travel by train instead of plane. When this turns out to be part of a plot by War Lord Yang (Akim Tamiroff) to hold up the train, get the money for himself, a four-way struggle develops. The girl's father (Porter Hall), sent by Yang to deliver the money to his agent in Shanghai, plans instead to abscond with it. A Shanghai barfly sniffs out the plan, demands...
...that with which Playwright Odets had obviously acquired Hollywood's technique. Directed in somewhat over-ostentatious style by Lewis Milestone, The General Died at Dawn remains a first rate melodrama, vividly penned, performed and photographed. Good shot: a reporter (Novelist John O'Hara) getting credentials from General Yang by promising to run his story on the front page...