China Doll

1958 · 99 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 652 VOTES · DIR. Frank Borzage

China Doll poster

Overview

American pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner" of a Chinese housekeeper, Shu-Jen. The unlikely couple falls in love and marries, but not without tragedy brought on by the war.

DramaRomanceWar1950s

Dialogue Timeline — 976 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:59 It's all right, Corporal. You'll get over it in the end.
00:05:29 - Help yourself. - Fine.
00:08:25 Buy his daughter? I don't even drink their water.
00:10:48 Here, buy yourself a couple of drinks.
00:16:29 - Morning, Father. - Morning, Cliff.
00:20:06 What's that?
00:22:54 Why, even your own great-grandmother, mine
00:26:49 I picked up some clothes.
00:29:21 - Coming right up. - DAN: Make it two.
00:33:38 Yeah, I guess you did.
00:38:48 I don't know anything about shopping for women.
00:41:58 (AIRPLANE WHIRRING)
00:44:35 - DAN: Oh, Skipper? - Yeah?
00:49:50 - Thanks. - Sick?
00:52:35 Well, she bothers me.
00:58:11 Lieutenant, letter for you, postmarked Philadelphia.
01:00:56 - I get bacon now. No more left. - What do you mean, gone?
01:04:31 (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
01:08:40 (SQUEALING)
01:12:21 Hey, hey. Get a load of that fighter escort, huh?
01:17:31 How are the boys shaping up?
01:20:32 We're about to launch another offensive, Operation Saucy
01:25:33 then the rest of us will go in with you.
01:31:18 I'm not going.

Cast & Characters

Victor Mature Capt. Cliff Brandon Li Hua Li Shu-Jen Ward Bond Father Cairns Bob Mathias Capt. Phil Gates Johnny Desmond Sgt. Steve Hill Stuart Whitman Lt. Dan O'Neill Elaine Devry Alice Nichols Ann McCrea Mona Perkins Danny Chang Ellington Denver Pyle Col. Wiley

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed976
Dialogue density9.9 lines / min
First line00:01:59
Final line01:31:18

Production Record

DirectorFrank Borzage
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes652