The Mountain Road

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

James Stewart

Major Baldwin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 100%

Lisa Lu

Sue-Mei Hung

Age : 98 | Popularity : 31%

Glenn Corbett

Collins

Age : 59 | Popularity : 53%

Harry Morgan

Mike Michaelson

Age : N/A | Popularity : 68%

Frank Silvera

Colonel Kwan

Age : N/A | Popularity : 20%

James Best

Niergaard

Age : 88 | Popularity : 100%

Rudy Bond

Sergeant Miller

Age : 69 | Popularity : 30%

Mike Kellin

Prince

Age : 61 | Popularity : 25%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Daniel Mann
Writing	Writer	Alfred Hayes
	Novel	Theodore H. White
Art	Set Decoration	William F. Calvert Sidney Clifford
	Production Design	Cary Odell
Sound	Original Music Composer	Jerome Moross
Production	Producer	William Goetz
Camera	Director of Photography	Burnett Guffey
	Camera Operator	James Saper
Editing	Editor	Edward Curtiss
Visual Effects	Mechanical Designer	Gerald Endler
Department	Role	Name

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