Commando de destruction

Titre original : The Mountain Road

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James Stewart and Lisa Lu in Commando de destruction (1960)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA US Army Major stationed in East China in 1944 is ordered to blow up military installations in order to slow down the advancing Japanese Army.A US Army Major stationed in East China in 1944 is ordered to blow up military installations in order to slow down the advancing Japanese Army.A US Army Major stationed in East China in 1944 is ordered to blow up military installations in order to slow down the advancing Japanese Army.

Réalisation
- Daniel Mann
Scénario
- Alfred Hayes
- Theodore H. White
Casting principal

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6,2/10

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Réalisation
- Daniel Mann
Scénario
- Alfred Hayes
- Theodore H. White
Casting principal

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Anecdotes
The film includes themes considered to be taboo for Hollywood during the war years, such as tensions between allies and racism among Americans.

Gaffes
When Baldwin and his unit arrive at the ammunition dump they're supposed to blow up, it consists of several small buildings and shacks. But the interior shots showing mountains of ammunition have no resemblance to the buildings they're supposed to be in: two of them are clearly gigantic tunnels ten or twenty times as long as the buildings that are supposedly being inspected.

Citations
Major Baldwin: Colonel, I'm gonna blow up this road. Now, how can we keep the people off?
Col. Kwan: Off?
Major Baldwin: Well, I-I, I need them stopped for about ten minutes. Can you do it?
Col. Kwan: How?
Major Baldwin: Well, uh, how 'bout, uh, how 'bout if we get a couple of empty gasoline drums, put 'em on either side of the road, stretch a rope across.
Col. Kwan: They'd go under the rope.
Major Baldwin: Well, then we get some Chinese soldiers to explain to them, explain to them that we're cutting the road. How 'bout that?
Col. Kwan: The soldiers will want to get through themselves.
Major Baldwin: Well, could we give them something?
Col. Kwan: What?
Major Baldwin: Well, money?
Col. Kwan: They cannot spend money here.
Major Baldwin: Well, food. How 'bout food? We got 'K' rations, cigarettes. How about cigarettes? What'll they take for the job?
[Kwan Says something in Chinese]
Major Baldwin: [Angrily] I don't speak Chinese, Colonel.
Col. Kwan: There is no way.

Connexions
Featured in Hollywood Chinese (2007)

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Plot of Movie

The Mountain Road is the story of an American Enginers destroying military stockpile ahead of a Japanese advance in late World War II. The corrupted Chinese Warlords refused to equip their men for the fight against the Japaneses and wanted to hoard so they could profit from the sale of gasoline and military supplies. One of the themes of the movie is the cultural clash between Americans and Chineses. One of the major difference between the two was the value of human life. I wish that this movie was available on DVD or VHS tape as I would like to have it for my collection. It is well worth while seeing to see one aspect of World War II in China.