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The Mountain Road

64 %|Jun 15, 1960|Drama, War

In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.

Featured Crew

Theodore H. White
Novel
Alfred Hayes
Writer
Daniel Mann
Director
William F. Calvert
Set Decoration
Jerome Moross
Original Music Composer
William Goetz
Producer
Sidney Clifford
Set Decoration
Burnett Guffey
Director of Photography

Cast

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James Stewart
Major Baldwin
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Lisa Lu
Sue-Mei Hung
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Harry Morgan
Mike Michaelson
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Frank Silvera
Colonel Kwan
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James Best
Niergaard
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Rudy Bond
Sergeant Miller
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Frank Maxwell
Sergeant Ballo
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Eddie Firestone
Major Lewis
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Leo Chen
Colonel Li
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Peter Chong
Chinese Colonel
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P.C. Lee
Chinese General
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Alan Baxter
General Loomis