China Girl
China Girl is a 1942 drama film which follows the exploits of an American newsreel photographer in China and Burma against the backdrop of World War II. The film stars Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari and Victor McLaglen, and was directed by Henry Hathaway. It is also known as A Yank In China, Burma Road and Over The Burma Road.
Plot
In Luzhou, China, news cameraman Johnny Williams is taken into custody by the Japanese military. He is offered $20,000 to take pictures of the Burma Road, a vital link for Allied supply that had been built to support the Chinese war effort. He is not interested.
More details
| author | Ben Hecht |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Myanmar |
| director | Henry Hathaway |
| editor | James B. Clark |
| events | Pacific War |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | abandon air raid barnstorm barnstormer beautiful woman begin build burma burma road burmese chinese court drink flee flying tigers irregular irregular military jilt kill kunming luzhou machine gun mandalay nationalist government night out rescue run away suspect trap vassar vassar college wait walk war effort west |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman Hugo Friedhofer |
| producer | Ben Hecht |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | race war |