The Mountain Road

In 1944, deep in eastern China, U.S. Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer demolition engineers are abandoned by retreating Chinese forces and tasked with slowing the Japanese advance. They begin by blowing up an American airfield and ammunition dump, then receive orders to destroy a crucial bridge across a mountain pass. Using a few army trucks, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese unit guarding the bridge; thanks to an American soldier who speaks Chinese, Baldwin secures permission from the Chinese commander. The colonel also asks Baldwin to destroy a distant munitions dump and to transport Madame Sue‑Mei Hung, a colonel’s widow, to the nearest major town.