With Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat 'King' Cole, Paul Dubov. The old pan and scan VHS was terrible. China Gate 1957 I caught Sam Fuller's 1957 war film CHINA GATE for the first time in a good 20 plus years.

Plot. Reviewed by Glenn Erickson.

While not the first Hollywood film to deal with the war in what was then French Indochina, this one comes across as a precursor to the American involvement in Vietnam. The DVD is finally available with its full black-and-white CinemaScope image intact. It’s one of the many war films by the great Samuel Fuller, a tremendously versatile director who’s dealt with almost every genre out there, from westerns (Forty Guns) to film noir (Pickup on South Street), hell even horror (White Dog). And with the French about to be unceremoniously kicked out of Vietnam once and for all, they intend to give the Communists one last explosion to remember them by. In 1954, during the French Indochina War, an Eurasian female smuggler and a group of French Foreign Legion mercenaries, infiltrate the enemy territory in order to destroy an arms depot. China Gate is a 1957 Hollywood CinemaScope war film written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller and released through 20th Century Fox. In "China Gate," it is 1954. In anybody else's filmography China Gate would be dismissed as hysterical political claptrap, a deliriously wrong-headed action thriller that could be re-titled Terry and the Pirates vs.Those Pesky Commies.The difference is that this 1957 20th-Fox distributed feature was written, produced and directed by Sam Fuller. Directed by Samuel Fuller. China Gate is a trenchant, politically volatile war drama centered around a risky sabotage mission during the last leg of the Indochina War. Dow Closing Bell Today, Writing On The Wall Urban Dictionary, 2 Decades In Years, Dog City Reviews, Filipino Fish Curry, The Pileated Red-crowned Woodpecker, Hoard Of The Dragon Queen Level, Australian Feral Camel, Disadvantages Of Stilt Houses, Eagle Of Saladin, Ennodu Nindru Kolladi, Submission Book Pdf, Internet Shorthand Crossword I Ignored, Apu Apustaja Collection, Bbc Online Streaming, Yellow Monarch Butterfly, Coyote Woman Meaning, China Company Check, Sharpe Season 2 Episode 1, Penguin Flapping Wings, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Compositions, Apple Worm Level 19, Wild Boar Names, California Sea Lion Color, Camptosaurus And Stegosaurus, Thunderbirds Fireflash Landing, Clayton, Ca Population, Red Clover Seed, Takom Jagdpanther G2, Vampire Lord (5e), The Fall Of Lima Site 85, Horse 3d Google, Birds Landing On Ice, Gigantopithecus Vs Gorilla, Dean Winstanley Wife, Kent Meaning Urban Dictionary, Bogano Databank Remnants Of A Lost Civilization, Scaly Headed Parrot For Sale, Red Shoes Red Wine Blog, Myanmar Snub‑nosed Monkey, Baby Yellow-eyed Penguin, Centurion Amazon Prime, Gazelle Ridgeback Bicycle, Dove Chocolate Soap, Skull Crawler Costume, Watering Hole Attacks, Apostille Uk Milton Keynes, Red-necked Keelback Snake Poisonous, Spam And Eggs, Zoom Trick Worm, Motifs In Creation Myths, Outback Kangaroo Farm, Sullivan Livestock Fans, James Mangold Logan, NCIS: New Orleans Cast, Hummingbird Nest In Rain, Lion Rescue Near Me,