Night Plane from Chungking (1943)

Action Drama Romance

Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include Albert Pasavy (Otto Kruger), a European of unknown nationality; a missionary, the Rev. Dr. Van Der Liden (Steven Geray);a French officer Major Raoul Brissac (Ernst Deutsch as Ernest Dorian), and Countess Olga Karagin (Tamara Geva), a White Russian. There is also Madame Woo (Soo Yong), an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian, and her traveling companion, Ann Richards (Ellen Drew), an American Red Cross nurse. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is Captain Nick Stanton (Robert Preston), an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.

Updated May 30 2020

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1943-05-31

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world war ii chinese

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Runtime: 69 mins Rating: 6.0

Cast

Otto Kruger

Albert Pasavy

Ernst Deutsch

Major Brissac (as Ernest Dorian)

Steven Geray

Rev. Dr. Ven Der Lieden

Robert Preston

Capt. Nick Stanton

Victor Sen Yung

Captain Po (as Sen Yung)

Ellen Drew

Ann Richards

Allen Jung

Lieutenant Tang

Soo Yong

Madame Wu

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