Product: General Died at Dawn [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
"A deadly game of double cross!" -- (trailer)
In THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN, the unlikeliest of heroes accidentally inflicts fatal stab wounds on despotic Gen. Yang (Tamiroff), but before this occurs, an American mercenary (Cooper) trying to aid a peoples' resistance movement is betrayed by other Occidentals and given over to Yang.Playwright Clifford Odets' first movie (as writer) was Oscar nominated for Supporting Actor (Tamiroff), Music and Cinematography. Odets also has a cameo here. This film's director, Lewis Milestone, and author John O'Hara have minor roles as reporters..Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.(6.8) The General Died at Dawn (1936) - Gary Cooper/Madeleine Carroll/Akim Tamiroff/Dudley Digges/Porter Hall/Bill Frawley/J.M. Kerrigan/Philip Ahn/John O'Hara (uncredited: Sarah Edwards/Russell Hicks/Lewis Milestone/Clifford Odets)