The General Died at Dawn Page #4

Synopsis: In revolution-torn China, American mercenary O'Hara is entrusted with a perilous mission, to get arms for the helpless authorities in a province ravaged by warlord General Yang. On the train to Shanghai, he meets Judy Perrie, whose father is in league with Yang. Will Judy regret agreeing to lure O'Hara to his doom, and if so, can she make it up to him? The balance of power seesaws to a perilous conclusion.
Director(s): Lewis Milestone
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
 
IMDB:
6.7
Year:
1936
98 min
62 Views


very limited self.

Mine is in people.

One day, they will all

walk on earth, straight, proud.

Men, not animals, with no fear

of hunger or poverty.

That's not so bad to die for,

sweetheart.

The time has come

when even,

even peasants

dare to laugh

in the face

of officer and General.

Pal, my nose

bleeds for you.

Give me the money.

Couldn't Wong

find it?

He's saying no money

in your place.

Cough up, Sam.

Give me the money.

The eight characters

of destiny are against you.

No money tonight.

Eight characters say

you are a liar.

Come and get it.

Fight?

Give me.

All right.

This is

the money.

You don't have

to worry an iota.

I'll take it

right to him.

Uh, Brighton.

That's his name?

Yes,

Brighton.

He is waiting

at the Mansion House,

Shanghai.

And

B- R-l-G-H-T-O-N.

Now I got it all in my head,

every word of it.

No mistake?

Oh!

General Yang never

forgets mistakes.

Say, am I honest

or am I not?

After all,

I...

I keep Mr. O'Hara

for now.

Maybe his Shanghai friends make trouble,

et cetera, maybe.

You're

a running dog.

Thanks.

Very good man.

Teaches my men discipline

and how to make war.

We will float down the river

to Shanghai together,

me and O'Hara.

Pick up ammunition also together.

Two days from now, we arrive.

If Mr. O'Hara's friends

make trouble,

if I don't get ammunition,

Mr. O'Hara don't arrive.

No hummingbird

can fight 15 wolves,

Mr. O'Hara.

Now, was that so terrible

as you thought?

The Mansion House.

Mr. Brighton.

Mr. Brighton.

Paging Mr. Brighton.

Paging Mr. Brighton.

Paging Mr. Brighton.

Paging Mr. Brighton.

Paging Mr. Brighton.

"I'll be glad when you're dead,

you rascal you"

"I'll be glad when you're dead,

you rascal you"

Paging Mr. Brighton.

Paging Mr. Brighton.

Paging Mr. Brighton.

I'm Mr. Brighton.

Thank you.

No news?

No.

I am very worried.

Something

is very wrong.

Drink hearty, my friend.

Oh, no, you don't.

You can't get away

with that.

I won't even

drink this drink.

You're trying

to get me drunk,

so I'll wait here

for your man O'Hara.

But I won't.

Now, look here, Woozy.

Don't you know

I can't lay around this harbor

with that

load of guns?

Any minute, the gitchie-witchies

are liable to hop on us

and we're sunk.

What do you think

I'm doin'?

Waitin' till the kids

get out of school

to sell them

lollipops and pretzels?

No, it's munitions.

It's illegal.

Plenty guns.

Plenty bullets.

Plenty noise.

And you, none of your

philosophical remarks.

Get me, Chennie?

Is he comin' or not?

No philosophy.

Have a drink,

my friend.

Oh! Take the wax

out of your ears.

Don't you hear me?

You can't get me tight.

Mr. Brighton,

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Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. Odets was widely seen as a successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill as O'Neill began to retire from Broadway's commercial pressures and increasing critical backlash in the mid-1930s. From early 1935 on, Odets' socially relevant dramas proved extremely influential, particularly for the remainder of the Great Depression. Odets' works inspired the next several generations of playwrights, including Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayefsky, Neil Simon, David Mamet, and Jon Robin Baitz. After the production of his play Clash by Night in the 1941–1942 season, Odets focused his energies on film projects, remaining in Hollywood for the next seven years. He began to be eclipsed by such playwrights as Miller, Tennessee Williams and, in 1950, William Inge. Except for his adaptation of Konstantin Simonov's play The Russian People in the 1942–1943 season, Odets did not return to Broadway until 1949, with the premiere of The Big Knife, an allegorical play about Hollywood. At the time of his death in 1963, Odets was serving as both script writer and script supervisor on The Richard Boone Show, born of a plan for televised repertory theater. Though many obituaries lamented his work in Hollywood and considered him someone who had not lived up to his promise, director Elia Kazan understood it differently. "The tragedy of our times in the theatre is the tragedy of Clifford Odets," Kazan began, before defending his late friend against the accusations of failure that had appeared in his obituaries. "His plan, he said, was to . . . come back to New York and get [some new] plays on. They’d be, he assured me, the best plays of his life. . . .Cliff wasn't 'shot.' . . . The mind and talent were alive in the man." more…

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