The Mountain Road (1960)
- 1960
- ·102 мин
Майору армии США, дислоцированному в Восточном Китае в 1944 году, приказано взорвать военные объекты, чтобы замедлить наступление японской армии.
- Актеры
- Glenn Corbett·Harry Morgan·James Stewart·Lisa Lu
- Направленный по
- Daniel Mann
- Жанр
- Drama·War
- Язык
- English·Chinese
- Cтрана
- USA
- Director
- Daniel Mann
America has never really known what to make of the Chinese, but in this lengthy and ponderous screen version of Theodore White's 1958 novel made during The Great Leap Forward but set when Japan was the common enemy a Chinese officer could declare "America is China's best friend!"American major Jimmy Stewart puts his ambivalence towards his current allies on hold while concentrating upon the more pressing business of blowing up bridges and ammunition dumps while Frank Silvera as a Chinese colonel adds yet another string to his bow of miscellaneous but usually sinister ethnic types.
Jimmy Stewart is "Maj. Baldwin" who commands a squad of American demolition experts left in China towards the end of WWII to thwart the advancing Japanese forces.
This is an amazing film about what it truly means to be "unfit for command". His "unit for command" character volunteers to lead a demolition team of 7 other men in war torn, famine torn China during World War II, in an attempt to slow down the advance of the Japanese.
