The General Died at Dawn
6.5(22) 1936-11-17 98 minDramaThriller
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.
DirectorLewis Milestone
ProducerWilliam LeBaron
ScreenplayClifford Odets
Original Music ComposerWerner Janssen
Cast & characters
Gary Cooper
as O'Hara
Madeleine Carroll
as Judy Perrie
Akim Tamiroff
as General Yang
Dudley Digges
as Mr. Wu
Porter Hall
as Peter Perrie
William Frawley
as Brighton
J.M. Kerrigan
as Leach
Philip Ahn
as Oxford
Lee Tung Foo
as Mr. Chen
Leonid Kinskey
as Stewart
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Val Duran
as Wong
Willie Fung
as Bartender
Hans Fuerberg
as Yang's Military Advisor
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John O'Hara
as Newspaper Reporter
Russell Hicks
as No Matches Man (uncredited)
Barnett Parker
as Dining Car Man (uncredited)
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Frank Young
as Travel Agent (uncredited)
Irene Bennett
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
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Spencer Chan
as Killer (uncredited)
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Suey Chan
as Guard (uncredited)
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Thomas Chan
as Houseboy (uncredited)
Sarah Edwards
as Companion of American without Matches (uncredited)
Paul Harvey
as American Husband (uncredited)
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Charles Leong
as Houseboy (uncredited)
