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The Mountain Road

6.4 102 mins Drama   War   1960
William Goetz Productions  
Director(s): Daniel Mann

In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.

Casts of The Mountain Road

James Stewart

as Major Baldwin

Lisa Lu

as Sue-Mei Hung

Glenn Corbett

as Collins

Harry Morgan

as Mike Michaelson

Frank Silvera

as Colonel Kwan

James Best

as Niergaard

Rudy Bond

as Sergeant Miller

Mike Kellin

as Prince

Frank Maxwell

as Sergeant Ballo

Eddie Firestone

as Major Lewis

Leo Chen

as Colonel Li

Peter Chong

as Chinese Colonel

P.C. Lee

as Chinese General

Alan Baxter

as General Loomis

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