Review of The General Died at Dawn (1936) by Jeff B — 10 Jun 2010
Okay film by Lewis Milestone that had a ton of potential but unfortunately didn't really work for me. Gary Cooper stars as an American in China who is trying to help smuggle weapons to the helpess Chinese to defend themselves against the evil warlord Akim Tamiroff.
While I hate all of these remakes that are going on right now, I feel a remake of this film, if in the right hands, would be excellent. I guess the problem with this is that it went by too quickly, some characters showed up without much explanation and others sort of disappeared.
It's got a nice score and the setting is excellent, but this could have been so much better.
This review of The General Died at Dawn (1936) was written by Jeff B on 10 Jun 2010.
The General Died at Dawn has generally received mixed reviews.
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