Lady from Chungking

Lady from Chungking

1942 "BLOODY REBELLION AGAINST SAVAGE CONQUERORS!"
Lady from Chungking
Lady from Chungking

Lady from Chungking

5.6 | 1h8m | NR | en | Drama

During World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese. The rescue mission takes on even more importance with the arrival of a Japanese general, which signals a major offensive taking place in the area.

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5.6 | 1h8m | NR | en | Drama , War | More Info
Released: December. 21,1942 | Released Producted By: Alexander-Stern Productions , PRC Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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During World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese. The rescue mission takes on even more importance with the arrival of a Japanese general, which signals a major offensive taking place in the area.

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Cast

Anna May Wong , Harold Huber , Mae Clarke

Director

William Nigh

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Alexander-Stern Productions , PRC

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Alex da Silva Anna May Wong plays the leader of a Chinese resistance group under the control of Japanese invaders during World War 2. Basically, she is the only good thing about the film. Wong fools the Japanese General Harold Huber that she loves him so that she can obtain information about incoming Japanese troops which she can then pass on to the Resistance fighters. She gets the required info and carries out her own mission. It's an OK film that is carried by Anna May Wong. It has a cheesy preachy ending and the cast are all wrong except the actual Chinese people and Wong. It scores marks for its different setting and for Wong. That's it – nothing more to say.
earlytalkie This turns out to be a very watchable programmer from PRC. Anna May Wong commands the screen throughout and Mae Clarke isn't bad either. The whole story is told in little more than an hour, as per most poverty row productions, and considering the budget, it looks rather convincing. These little studios gave some one-time big stars such as those in this film a chance to show that they still had it. The production is directed by poverty row ace William Nigh, who does a fairly good job here. This was obviously but one of dozens of WW2 propaganda films, but this still has the power to entertain. Available on DVD or streaming on YouTube.
gordonl56 Produdcers Releasing Corportion comes to the rescue in this low, low-budget flag-waver from the mid war years. PRC films always have that filmed in a week for 50 bucks look for a reason. They were filmed in a week for 50 bucks! Having said that, every so often they knocked off a watchable cheapie. This "is", one of those watchable programmers. Anna May Wong plays the leader of the local Chinese guerrilla fighters taking on the Japanese. She dolls herself up and cuddles up to the Japanese garrison commander. She extracts all the info she needs before pulling out a pistol and dispatching the swine. There is secondary sub-plot with some downed Flying Tigers pilots. This film is no great masterpiece, but as an example of a wartime flag-waver it is worth a look. Hack director William Nigh did manage to turn out a couple of decent time-wasters with great titles like, I WOULDN'T BE IN YOUR SHOES, DOOMED TO DIE, ESCAPE FROM HONG KONG etc.
Snow Leopard Overall, this is a solid if unspectacular wartime drama, with a message that was important at the time. But Anna May Wong's performance lifts it well above the norm for its genre, and although it seems likely that she was cast primarily so as to lend her charm and her reputation to the movie's message, the movie serves quite well as a showcase for her own considerable abilities.The story has Wong as the leader of a resistance group to the Japanese occupation of China, and while the film definitely has a low-budget look to it, the atmosphere is generally convincing. Mae Clarke does a good job and is rather appealing herself, as a cynical singer whose loyalties are obscure. As the Japanese general with whom Wong's character must match wits, Harold Huber is too obviously not Asian for the role to work completely, but he does do a solid job of portraying the general as greedy yet short-sighted, egotistical but foolish.Wong gets plenty of good material to work with, and she does an excellent job with all of it. At times she must act as a meek subject of the occupiers, at other times a tough-minded leader in a desperate situation. Then, in the scenes when she tries to win the general's confidence, she is finally able to do justice to her beauty and her elegant reserve. She makes it very convincing to believe that she could captivate a man much tougher than General Kaimura. Finally, in the speech that drives home the movie's message, her voice works very well in delivering the message.Anna May Wong is certainly better remembered for her roles in other, far more lavish productions than this. Without her, "Lady from Chungking" would a well-meaning but generally nondescript feature. But it's easily worth seeing for the opportunities that it gives her to provide an example of her wide range of abilities.