Gripping Drama Laid In Modem War-torn China
A gripping drama of intrigue, romance and adventure, “The General Died at Dawn, ” a Paramount picture, now showing at the King’s Theatre, Pahiatua, brings Gary Cooper to the screen in another colourful soldier-of-fortune role. With modern China as ifs background, the plot of “The General Dica at Dawn” revolves around the awakening of China to the oppressions of her predatory war-lords and the beginning of a spirit of resistance. Cooper, as the champion of the down-trodden, is in the ranks of tho new movement. Playing opposite him is beautiful Madeleine Carroll in the role of the Jure held out by a war-lord to lead Cooper to destruction. “Tho General Died at Dawn” is tho thrilling story of a love that blooms between a man to whom danger is life and the girl who was paid to get him out of tho way. Hhving trapped him she soon finds herself enmeshed in the sarno web. lleihcfrst causes her to offer her life for the freedom of the man she loves. In a thrilling climax the pair snatch haziness and love from the very jaws of death and save the cause to which the man had dedicated his life.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 68, 22 March 1937, Page 2
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