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The Mountain Road (1960)
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.
Updated May 24 2020
Cast
Rudy Bond
Sergeant Miller
Harry Morgan
Mike Michaelson
Alan Baxter
General Loomis
Eddie Firestone
Major Lewis
Glenn Corbett
Collins
Frank Silvera
Colonel Kwan
James Best
Niergaard
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Crew
Burnett Guffey
Director of Photography
Edward Curtiss
Editor
Cary Odell
Production Design
Jerome Moross
Original Music Composer
Sidney Clifford
Set Decoration
Alfred Hayes
Writer
Daniel Mann
Director
William Goetz
Producer
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