China Sky (1945)
May 16, 1945Release Date
China Sky (1945)
May 16, 1945Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Randolph Scott
Dr. Gray Thompson
Ruth Warrick
Dr. Sara Durand
Ellen Drew
Louise Thompson
Anthony Quinn
Chen-Ta
Carol Thurston
Siu-Mei
Richard Loo
Col. Yasuda
'Ducky' Louie
Little Goat
Philip Ahn
Dr. Kim
Benson Fong
Chung
H.T. Tsiang
Magistrate
Chin Kuang Chow
Little Charlie
Brenda Weisberg
Screenplay
Ray Enright
Director
Pearl S. Buck
Novel
Nicholas Musuraca
Director of Photography
Joseph Hoffman
Screenplay
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 16, 1945
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
China Sky (aka Pearl Buck's China Sky) is a 1945 RKO Pictures film based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck. It was directed by Ray Enright and featured movie idol Randolph Scott, teamed with Ruth Warrick, Ellen Drew and Anthony Quinn. Although set in wartime China, Quinn and other lead actors portrayed Chinese characters, in keeping with other period films that employed Caucasian actors in Asian roles.
China Sky was one of the last in a succession of wartime films depicting the Chinese confronting Japanese invaders that included: A Yank on the Burma Road (1942), China Girl (1942), Flying Tigers (1942), China (1943), Behind the Rising Sun (1943), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Dragon Seed (1944), God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) and China's Little Devils, released May 27, 1945. Similar to many of the other treatments, Chinese characters in China Sky were in secondary or subservient roles, with the versatile and highly malleable Quinn taking on another nationality, having already played countless other roles as an Indian, Mafia don, Hawaiian chief, Filipino freedom-fighter, French pirate, Spanish bullfighter and Arab sheik.