China (1943)

Directed by

John Farrow

Genre

adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American adventurer in China during the war tries to stay neutral but gets drawn into the conflict. He meets a woman who changes his views and becomes involved with local allies.

wartimeadventurousseriousromanticpatrioticclassic

What happens

China is a 1943 film directed by John Farrow and starring Loretta Young, Alan Ladd and William Bendix. Ladd's character David Llewellyn Jones, wearing a fedora, a leather jacket, khakis and a beard stubble, was an inspiration for Indiana Jones. Aside from Tala Birell as one of Jones' paramours at the beginning of the film, the entire supporting cast is Asian, including Philip Ahn and Richard Loo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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