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

00:08:23 No. Wait for the plane in Pengwa.

00:13:25 Who?

00:17:54 Do you?

00:21:12 Here's my life in a few lines:

00:25:19 Why? What for?

00:30:06 Yang Incorporated, merchants of war

00:33:41 We will float down the river to Shanghai together

00:38:16 and then I sell to the first comer.

00:42:16 And?

00:45:42 or I've done it myself.

00:49:59 Better open up, brother. Who are you?

00:52:26 if you should call on me when you need me.

00:55:43 Show me how to get out of here.

01:01:08 Save your breath

01:03:23 You think you're pretty smart, don't you?

01:07:11 It was my life or his.

01:11:28 but they nailed me down.

01:16:18 make great commerce: Silk, rice, and opium.

01:20:15 You make decide?

01:23:56 I asked you for a drink, and that's your answer.

01:28:43 because he's sore at the world

01:32:28 Excellency. Shut up.

01:36:10 but very, very corrupt.

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 line01:36:10

Production Record

DirectorLewis Milestone

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes1,402