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The General Died at Dawn

(1936)

November 17, 1936• 1h 38m
65%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Lewis Milestone

Director

Top Billed Cast

GC

Gary Cooper

O'Hara

MC

Madeleine Carroll

Judy Perrie

AT

Akim Tamiroff

General Yang

DD

Dudley Digges

Mr. Wu

PH

Porter Hall

Peter Perrie

WF

William Frawley

Brighton

JK

J.M. Kerrigan

Leach

PA

Philip Ahn

Oxford

LTF

Lee Tung Foo

Mr. Chen

LK

Leonid Kinskey

Stewart