China 1943 Alan Ladd, Loretta Young & William Bendix
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- China is a 1943 film directed by John Farrow and starring Loretta Young, Alan Ladd and William Bendix. Ladd's character David Llewellyn Jones, wearing a fedora, a leather jacket, khakis and a beard stubble, was an inspiration for Indiana Jones. Aside from Tala Birell as one of Jones' paramours at the beginning of the film, the entire supporting cast is Asian, including Philip Ahn and Richard Loo.
Plot
A war profiteer (Alan Ladd) and his buddy (William Bendix) protect a U.S. teacher (Loretta Young), her Chinese schoolgirls and a baby from the Japanese.
Saw this wonderful fulm way back in the 1940s and have such happy memories. Such a thrill to be able to see it again courtesy of CZcams. England, April, 2024.
Heck. That means Saint Patrick is almost opening the gate for you
Should never have let China fall to the Reds
Excellent story telling. Alan and Loretta were perfect together, great chemistry. This one wrung some emotion out of me. Definitely a very good watch.
Outstanding! The sets, the military equipment, the effects, the location (AZ) were top drawer for the day. The entire cast too. Thank you D.K.
Agreed, and it was outstanding, literally, how they propped up Ladd on boxes and ramps to do the scenes and appear to be on par with other actors in height when he was actually a midget.
@@Franklin-pc3xd There are slightly different reports concerning Ladd's true height, but the most common numbers presented are 5 ft 6 in and 5 ft 7 in. Short, yes, but not all that unusual especially for some nationalities. Consider that Audie Murphy--the most decorated WW2 soldier--was 5 ft 5 in. Neither man was a midget.
Edit: For general information, I should add that the word "midget" is now considered a derogatory term, about on par with calling every overweight person fat.
@@larrywhited3070 As those terms should be derogatory, since it is one's intention to ridicule heavy people and short people when we call them fat and/or midgets or pip squeaks. This is the entire problem today; the meanings and usage of words are all conflated with nonsensical, juvenile emotions. A fat slob is just a flat slob - it is what it is. Alan Ladd was definitely a pip squeak - by any measure. There, is that better than midget?
another beautiful classic movie to watch.
Thanks for sharing your excellent quality film library. William Bendix fan.
This had about the best special effects I've seen in any movie from the era; or from any movie for that matter. The soundtrack was excellent too. Good acting. Loretta gorgeous as always
Who walks around in a bombing attack like that?..
Hey! Way back near the beginning of the movie, it was mentioned that they were low on gas for the truck. Seems to just keep on running anyway...
Lovely Loretta Young's eyes, very very nice Alan Ladd's muscles, funny and charming Wm Bendix. The others were all convincing in their rolls. Thks
Alan Ladd’s character here, David Llewelyn Jones’s outfit worn for this role, the fedora, leather jacket, khakis, and chin stubble was the inspiration for personal dress in the Indiana Jones movies. Also this movie was shot around the mountains and passes of Phoenix, Arizona when the population was only around 65,000. Aside from that this was a pretty good movie.
lovely film Alan Ladd plays this one real good
History: Japanese behaved like animals and never apologized for it nor have they changed their views that lead to their barbarism
Hollywood then: Shows Japanese true nature
Today: You can't show scenes like this! That is racist!
Cheryl Ladd, of Charlie's Angels is related to Alan Ladd. I think he was better looking when much younger.
Great movie 🍿🎥
He was her father-in-law. As she married his son David Ladd
We all were better looking
Alan had always bn a beautiful man with fine features. Cheryl was his daughter n law.
Iconic Legendary Movie 🎬 B&W This time Loretta Young lost her Daring Darling Excellent Wotch 👏
Very Nice the film and history... congratulatios !!!
Paulo Bajko from Santo André city São Paulo state Brazil. ❤
21.55 the most authentic looking explosion of a truck with people inside, that I have ever seen in a movie.
Ladd knocked himself Loretta was with Clark and had a baby girl from memory and Bendix was in a movie Titanic I think or a ship that sank. 🐊
??? What
great movie..the old days were the best..
Thank you for this film, execellent cast, throughly enjoyed this film
Shades of a later film, with Ingrrid Bergman""Inn of the Sixth Happiness" or am I mistaken?
They sure got their "New China!
Yep, and now the wonderful Japanese ( and Germans) are America's friends and China ( and Russia), victims of Japanese and German friendliness, are America's enemies. Just makes you wonder what side the USA is really on!
It had to be a VERY strong trigger to impel Alan Ladd's character to join a fight that wasn't his own. . .
Thank you.
What a nice movie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
GOOD MOVIE 🎬
Thank you!!
Never pass on a William Bendix
Born/raised San Diego. While still there, my husband had met many famous ppl. Said Bendix was very nice. I remember his comedy show in 50s.
A pretty good war propaganda movie worth watching. Given that the film wasn't produced in China, the movie company did a great job convincing you that it was. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder what those aircraft were in the opening sequence, they looked like TRI-MOTOR TWIN RUDDER planes, I thought at first they were Handley Page Hampdens until I spotted the nose engine.
Excelent movie. Excelent.
For being produced in 1943 this film has surprisingly good special effects. I found the best to be at the following minutes: 2:30 , 21:45 , 39:40 , and 1:18:00 . (You can click on these entries for direct access, but I would watch the full movie first.) Better than these for me though was the very well presented and rock-solid spiritual message at minute 48:30 that was not "churchianity" but was true Christianity. This followed the brutal and vile treatment of a young Chinese woman, She had truly needed to hear the gospel as this became her only hope for eternal peace.
Some outstanding scenes by Asian actors, the wardrobe. How does that last
canyon where the blast took place look today, is it still rugged, narrow?
i love the tank style watch and wife beater he wears,but dont see it later on in the film.loretta young said she and ladd didnt get along at all that well,she said she never seen him laugh or joke around during filming.she called him a winer who didnt get his way.though they would make another film together after this AND NOW TOMORROW 1944.
Loretta also denied Clark Gable knocked her up as she was a good Catholic.
So she pretended to "adopt" her own daughter.
look and swagger of Indiana jones.
Simply no comparison. These actors very very special.
Ladd was the original.
18:54 Chinese people are so extremely polite. Love them!
The girls all speak perfect English w/no Chinese accent as well as everyone else. To backtrack 12 hrs. and risk the truck is insane, and where is all the gas coming from? And the Japanese speak English, too? So unbelievable. And everyone dead at the farmhouse, the poor baby. Loretta was so beautiful and a good actress. So it was filmed in AZ? Sure looks like it, as in 1943 it couldn't be filmed om location. Why have the baby at all in the movie to have it murdered?
1943 America was at war. The farm house scene was created to in-site anger against the enemy and empathy for the Chinese who were our friends during WWII.
@@aktimes2 Yes, I know they put the American Japanese in camps(wrong) and the Chinese had signs in their business stating that they were NOT Japanese. The Chinese have been in America since at least the late 1860's.
I would of liked the script to have the baby live. It ruined the movie to have the baby die.
@@francesjohnson3045 I agree, and they named him Donald! He talked about Donald being w/him on his parent's farm in Oregon. Crying!
So nice movie. Was it made in 1943?
filmed in 42, released in 43
26:00
"Buld new China". You got your wish😅
Oh they got a new China allright pretty sad when you think about it .
This new China 01:18:40
Yes we got😊
Etá povo animado
The life of Riley & a baby
Moral of the story, nice guys finish last.
I wonder where the kid is today?
It strikes me that “Mr Jones” would change his tune very quickly when the Japanese attacked the USA 🇺🇸, even a character as ruthless as him would not do business with the enemy, maybe not because he didn’t want to but because if he was aiding the enemy he would probably have ended up in front of a wall with a blindfold on.
Putting aside that this is a film I have to say that what did “Mr Jones” expect @ 12:35+, driving like he owned the roads and thinking that the fleeing Chinese refugees would “get out the way”, the Chinese had every right to attack him and his friend, they would have been scared, hungry, wet and demoralised, the perfect recipe for backlash. I don’t know if the film has any basis in reality but I think that some Americans, then and now, think that being the leaders of the free world and the strongest military forces gives them the right to behave as though they owned the country that they were/are in, and unfortunately they get/got away with it, especially during war, which there has and is happening now, some Americans need to remember that they are guests in most countries they are in and are not superior to anyone else.
I know that my comments/opinions might upset some people but they are just my opinions, I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if the USA 🇺🇸 had not been so isolationist before the Japanese 🇯🇵 attack on Pearl Harbour brought them into WWII, perhaps if they had been more willing to engage the Japanese and other Axis nations in 1939 instead of 1941 (realistically it was 1942-1943) the whole war might have been shortened and perhaps the atrocities committed by the Japanese and axis nations would not have been so extreme, but unfortunately they had to do what the American public opinion dictated, and maybe the Americans were right to wait, it did give them the breathing space to build up the military and industrial complex and help those countries, that were still in the fight, from going under because of the lack of everything, it is definitely a question that I’m glad we will never have an answer to, otherwise we might get an answer we don’t like.
China demanded tribute money from Japan - Japan declared war seeing it was inevitable. As an American colonel recently remarked, "The Japanese don't pay tribute money to anybody." Too bad the USA isn't that virtuous.
Yawn. Something else Japan doesn't do, like apologize for the hundreds of thousands Chinese they murdered in WW2. Too bad Japan isn't that virtuous.
They are when Trump is in office
Is China going to pay tribute money to Mongolia 🇲🇳 or India, or their newest attempt to steal territorial waters from Philippines 🇵🇭. Screw China 🇨🇳
Reminder: at this time, Japan was ALREADY OCCUPING KOREA, and greedily wanted China. The US feared Japanese power and refused to aid KOREA! Big mistake. That's what led to the extreme distrust of the US by China and Korea. AND they HATE JAPAN, of course. The People's Republic of China, once the traitorous Mao was dead, proved that The Long March, a monumental effort of ALL the people, was not in vain+
@@artisticdavidDoesn’t matter. They are an arrogant COLD people. I once worked for Japanese engineers and have a cousin married to a Japanese woman. Only Japanese MEN outwardly express humor!
Ladd was very fit, but a very short leading man.
Realism was not a thing of 1943. Most movies filmed on back lot or stiudio.
True
this one was filmed in several locations in arizona and california
Daughter-in-law, I think.
Good movie. Lots of action. Heavy duty scene where Japanese officer gave details of Pearl Harbor.
The officer mentions ‘new world order.’
That was unexpected! Movie released in 1943.
War is the health of the state
War is death of any state where war mongers get rich.
J'ai revendu ma Lexus
Men in power lo=e war
New China! Both of USA and Chiang Kai Shek gave up!
Yes, China (pre-Mao) was our ally against the Japanese. If we had known then what we know now...
Yea, America would have sided with the Japanese and Germans to control the world. What a scary thought!
1943 Most of the people and all of the animals are dead. When they made this movie the futher was looked upon as so far that they had all the time they wanted. But now they are dead. We now have our lives as they had theirs. The grace Gospel for salvation 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 and Ephesians 2:8 The required faith to believe the grace gospel comes from God WE ARE SAVED THROUGH FAITH NOT BY FAITH IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD NOT OF YOURSELVES.
What was his gift during the Holocaust?
@@andriesscheper2022 Or any other obscenity contrived by lenin stalin pol pot idi amin etc.
GOD'S GRACE, CLEANES US FROM ALL OUR PAST SINS ! NOMATTER HOW BAD OUR PAST SINS WAS, BUT, I WANT ALL THAT CLAM TO BE SAVED, TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO A COVENANT, AND IT IS OUR SIDE TO KEEP HIS TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE LAWS THAT GOD WRITES ON OUR HEARTS ! And to come out of rebellion of doing things that go's against HIS WORD !!
I KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS TO STAY SAVED !!! Not to be saved!!! THAT I MITE HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE !!! AS THIS SCRIPTURE SAYS !
Revelation 22:14 Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
The Commandments cannot Clean us, or Save US, but they keep us clean And SAVED after Yeshua cleans us !
So the Commandments do not save us, but they keep us saved AND CLEAN!!! after Yeshua saves us ! if we keep them unto death !!! YAHWEH Bless as HE sees Good,
We are only covered BY HIS GRACE, for our past sins, if we willfully sin after YESUAH cleans us, We are dirty again, and we have chose to be lost instead of saved,
and not under his blood, for choosing to sin willfully, when we know something is sin and choose to sin any way, WE are choosing to be lost' and without YESUAH,
we haft to go back to YESUAH, and get the blood applied again to that sin we committed after we have been cleaned, and get the blood applied for sins we commit after YESUAH cleans US, the Bible tells us that it is our past sins that he cleanses us of, To continue in sin, is not repenting, and YESUAH says unless ye repent, ye
shall all likewise perish !!!
You make no sense.
@@bogtrottername7001 It will in the futur
Killing the baby off was a bad move make the movie lousy
On October 7th many babies were killed, I guess that would make a lousy movie.
I guess that was some excusable hokum for 1943 propaganda for the morale of the cinema -going audiences at the time! Loretta had some neat outfits ,and Alan was quite hunky and all the Chinese dolls were pretty cute!
What a shallow, woke comment.
@@donnabaardsen5372
Seemed pretty astute to me
Give up on the woke bull!
enough already with this ridiculous word…don’t woke me until its over😂
@@donnabaardsen5372 Hep hep! 40s pre-woke jive talk!
I am from China ,this movie is not real Chinese history and Japanese didn’t do like what the movie told
So what did the Japanese do? They were brutal & heartless and fought to the their deaths.
It would be something to see how in China today they teach history about WWII. From your comment I bet it is very different than the west.
OK, but you should understand Hollywood it’s all about ticket sales and what will make the public buy those tickets
I guess Nanking and Unit 731 never happened.
@@georgeacun3619 yes. Nanking is the political
Movie is a little boring