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The General Died at Dawn

The General Died at Dawn

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 17, 1936

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Drama, Thriller

User Score

62%

Original Title

The General Died at Dawn

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Director

Lewis Milestone

Description

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.