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.
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Keyword: rescue, shanghai, china, war crimes, arms deal, greed, mercenary, renegade, warlord, chinese civil war, deception, murder, gunshot wound, mass suicide, oppression, adventurer, somber, 1930s, father daughter relationship, american in china
- Cast: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, William Frawley
