The General Died at Dawn

The General Died at Dawn

193698 min6.5 / 10

A tense 1930s thriller set amid Chinese civil war, following an American adventurer caught between warring factions, tyranny, and moral compromise in a landscape of deception and violence.

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.

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