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The General Died at Dawn (1936)

Directed by Lewis Milestone · 98 min · Drama, Thriller

21.9 TOPICAL score · #4,328 of 6,776 films

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China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.

The General Died at Dawn (1936, directed by Lewis Milestone) has a TOPICAL score of 21.9 - ranked 4,328 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and critics, and lowest on historical impact. It won 0 awards from 3 nominations. Critics: 100% on Rotten Tomatoes · 6.8/10 critics' average. Audiences: TMDB 6.5/10 (23 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 11 languages.

Why this score

Each bar: better than this % of the 6,776 films we score. How the score works.

Critics68
Audience-
Awards73
Historical impact10
Lasting engagement12
Cast14
Legacy & cult status-

Starring: Gary Cooper (actor #107), Madeleine Carroll (actor #1,715), Akim Tamiroff (actor #1,064), Dudley Digges (actor #1,951)

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