The Mountain Road
- 1960
- 1h 42m
A US Army Major stationed in East China in 1944 is ordered to blow up military installations in order to slow down the advancing Japanese Army.A US Army Major stationed in East China in 1944 is ordered to blow up military installations in order to slow down the advancing Japanese Army.A US Army Major stationed in East China in 1944 is ordered to blow up military installations in order to slow down the advancing Japanese Army.
- Sgt. 'Mike' Michaelson
- (as Henry 'Harry' Morgan)
- Bit Role
- (uncredited)
- Chinese Captain
- (uncredited)
- Bit Role
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaThe film includes themes considered to be taboo for Hollywood during the war years, such as tensions between allies and racism among Americans.
- GoofsWhen Baldwin and his unit arrive at the ammunition dump they're supposed to blow up, it consists of several small buildings and shacks. But the interior shots showing mountains of ammunition have no resemblance to the buildings they're supposed to be in: two of them are clearly gigantic tunnels ten or twenty times as long as the buildings that are supposedly being inspected.
- Quotes
Major Baldwin: Colonel, I'm gonna blow up this road. Now, how can we keep the people off?
Col. Kwan: Off?
Major Baldwin: Well, I-I, I need them stopped for about ten minutes. Can you do it?
Col. Kwan: How?
Major Baldwin: Well, uh, how 'bout, uh, how 'bout if we get a couple of empty gasoline drums, put 'em on either side of the road, stretch a rope across.
Col. Kwan: They'd go under the rope.
Major Baldwin: Well, then we get some Chinese soldiers to explain to them, explain to them that we're cutting the road. How 'bout that?
Col. Kwan: The soldiers will want to get through themselves.
Major Baldwin: Well, could we give them something?
Col. Kwan: What?
Major Baldwin: Well, money?
Col. Kwan: They cannot spend money here.
Major Baldwin: Well, food. How 'bout food? We got 'K' rations, cigarettes. How about cigarettes? What'll they take for the job?
[Kwan Says something in Chinese]
Major Baldwin: [Angrily] I don't speak Chinese, Colonel.
Col. Kwan: There is no way.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood Chinese (2007)
Stewart's character is a U.S. military engineer working with a small team trying to slow a Japanese advance in China. Though there's plenty of action (especially explosions), the emphasis is on the Americans' interaction with their Chinese allies -- which is fraught with problems. Stewart's character has a local love interest, played by Lisa Lu, but their relationship is nothing like a conventional GI romance.
"The Mountain Road" was obviously meant to be a thought-provoking look back at World War II, and to audiences in the early 1960s it probably was. The climax may have been almost shocking. In today's more jaded world, the movie is likely to strike many viewers as dull, with an ending that resolves very little. But it you still have a rose-colored view of the "Greatest War," and think it was less morally messy than our current conflicts, this could be enlightening.
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- Sep 8, 2010
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- Also known as
- Der Kommandant
- Filming locations
- Stewart Mt. Roads, Salt River Canyon, Arizona, USA(refugee road sceens)
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- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1