Product: China Doll (1958)
Rating: 4.0
Not great but you can't stop looking at it once you start
Whoever wrote the product description for Amazon for this movie apparently never saw the movie. Not to give the ending away but what this describes as what happens at the end is absolutely wrong and needs to be changed as it is misleading. Victor Mature was never a great actor but there isn't now and never has been a face like that on the movie screen. It is unique. I saw him once many years ago in New Orleans and recognized him instantly. He fits this part perfectly as it is an older rather jaded character boozing his way through his spare time in a war zone. I was not impressed with the beauty of the Chinese girl and she was waaaaaay too made up, hair too Americanized, but she did a very good job in the role. For a while it seemed like they were playing it mostly for humor then the story turned and it became all drama. For a movie about that time made during that time I thought it was well done. Once I started looking at it I couldn't stop.