Summary
The Battle of China is an American war film first released in 1944,
directed by Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak.
The film stars Claire Chennault, Kai-Shek Chiang, Madame Chiang, Winston Churchill and Teh Chu.
It has also been released under the title: The Battle of China: Assault on the Great Wall.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
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Credits
- Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- Script: Confucius, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
- Cast: Claire Chennault (Himself), Kai-Shek Chiang (Himself), Madame Chiang (Herself), Winston Churchill (Himself), Teh Chu (Himself), Anthony Eden (Himself), William F. Halsey (Himself (looks up from desk)), Hirohito (Himself), Walter Huston (Abraham Lincoln), Douglas MacArthur (Himself), Col. William Mayer (Himself), Louis Mountbatten (Himself), Henry Pu-yi (Himself), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Himself), Joseph W. Stilwell (Himself), Yat-sen Sun (Himself), Gi-ichi Tanaka (Himself), Anthony Veiller (Narrator)
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Runtime: 65 min; B&W
- Aka: The Battle of China: Assault on the Great Wall; Why We Fight, 6
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