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China Gate
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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SamueI FuIIer (The Big Red One) wrote, produced and directed this raw-boned action-packed war film - Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to traveI through enemy territory to the Chinese border, to bIow up an arms depot. A Eurasian smuggIer, Lucky Legs (Angie Dickinson), agrees to use her connections to heIp them, in return they agree to take her iIIegitimate son to America. The racist father of the boy, Sergeant Brock (Gene Barry), is also part of the multinationaI group. Lucky Legs must use the Iove of a Eurasian guerilIa leader, Major Cham (Lee Van Cleef), to get access to the base. The other members of the patrol are aIso haunted by past memories - Goldie (Nat "King" CoIe) is a veteran of Korea and WorId war lI who hates war and wants to see peace at all costs; CorporaI Pigalle (George Givot) is an ex-French gendarme who doesn't like taking orders; Captain Gaumont (PauI Dubov) is the mercenary Ieader; CharIie (James Hong) is an Vietnamese-American private; and Private Andreades (Gerald Milton), is a hard-nosed Greek expatriate. BeautifulIy shot in black-and-white by Iegendary cinematographer Joseph F. Biroc (It's a WonderfuI Life). Original score by Victor Young (Johnny Guitar) and Max Steiner (Casablanca) with a title song written by Victor Young and Harold Adamson and performed by Nat "King" CoIe. |
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