The General Died at Dawn

Name: The General Died at Dawn
Director: Lewis Milestone
Released: 1936
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall

1936 · 98 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 1,402 VOTES · DIR. Lewis Milestone

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,373 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:04:42 There they are: Refugees from Anshan

00:08:21 You don't advise the train from Pengwa?

00:13:19 What good are these pills?

00:17:46 I live here till tomorrow. Do you mind?

00:20:51 You'll sell to them?

00:25:03 You can buy him for a bag of salt.

00:29:42 Someday even they'll get wise

00:33:13 No mistake? Oh!

00:37:49 No philosophy.

00:41:16 He got plenty money.

00:44:48 Why are you so very much interested

00:48:20 it's lucky if more complications

00:51:34 But your father, he knows. Just look at him.

00:53:55 Will you tell him?

00:59:06 No? No.

01:02:33 You were doing illegal work, running guns. You fell.

01:05:09 Pete!

01:08:55 You do it.

01:14:56 Can make painfulness many, many ways.

01:18:40 That's all right

01:21:54 Honest?

01:25:38 That's American money, and no Chinese can-

01:29:33 At whose command?

01:33:21 in the history of General Yang's life.

Cast & Characters

Gary Cooper O'Hara Madeleine Carroll Judy Perrie Akim Tamiroff General Yang Dudley Digges Mr. Wu Porter Hall Peter Perrie William Frawley Brighton J.M. Kerrigan Leach Philip Ahn Oxford Lee Tong Foo Mr. Chen Leonid Kinskey Stewart

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,373

Dialogue density14.0 lines / min

First line00:04:42

Final line01:33:21

Production Record

DirectorLewis Milestone

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes1,402