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.
Producer: William LeBaron
Director: Lewis Milestone
Story: Charles G. Booth
Screenplay: Clifford Odets
Director of Photography: Victor Milner
O'Hara
Judy Perrie
General Yang
Mr. Wu
Peter Perrie
Brighton
Leach
Oxford
The General Died At Dawn Trailer 1936