China Sky (film)

China Sky aka Pearl Bucks China Sky is a 1945 RKO Pictures film based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck. N It was directed by Ray Enright and featured movie idol Randolph Scott, teamed with Ruth Warrick, Ellen Drew and Anthony Quinn. Although set in wartime China, Quinn and other lead actors portrayed Chinese characters, in keeping with other period films that employed Caucasian actors in oriental roles.

Dr. Gray Thompson, Randolph Scott an American missionary doctor, works alongside Dr. Sara Durand Ruth Warrick in a hospital he has built in a small hilltop Chinese village, while Japanese forces descend on China. When Gray returns for a trip, he shocks Sara who is in love with him by introducing his new socialite wife, Louise Ellen Drew. Bored and feeling out of place, Louise tries to persuade him to give up his dangerous cause. In the midst of aerial bombing attacks on the village, Dr. Thompson unselfishly helps the local residents, and especially the insurgent leader ChenTa Anthony Quinn who loves nurse SiuMei Carol Thurston, betrothed to Dr. Kim Philip Ahn, a sympathetic ChineseKorean doctor.Col. Yasuda Richard Loo, a highranking, injured Japanese prisoner, manipulates Dr. Kim into sending a coded message, purportedly from Louise, to his side that the village is secretly harboring an ammunition dump. Gray and the others become puzzled when Japanese airplanes stop attacking their village,. When Japanese paratroops descend on the village, Gray organizes the defense and sends a messenger to Chen Ta. During the brutal fighting, Yasuda fatally shoots Dr. Kim and grazes Gray. A distraught Louise runs out into the line of fire and is killed. The Japanese are defeated when Chen Ta and his men arrive on horseback. He promises to return for Siu Mei after the invaders have been driven out of their country. As the air raids begin again, the two doctors stoically face the next air raid together. ........

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