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1942 · 62 mins · English
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Directed by
Joseph H. Lewis
Starring
Nedrick Young, Dan Seymour, Anna May Wong, Leslie Denison, Judith Gibson, Frank Lackteen

During the early years of World II, Chinese guerrillas battle the Japanese in Burma to protect the Allied supply line. Schoolteacher Lin Yang from Chongqing is recruited after a student is killed in an air raid, joining a hazardous mission. While traveling the Burma Road with Allied representatives, a bridge collapse forces a night stay at a monastery, where they watch a Japanese bombing of a convoy and begin to suspect an infiltrator among their group.

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