The General Died at Dawn: Difference between revisions
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General Yang's soldiers are armed with [[Mauser Gewehr 1898]] rifles with ''Seitengewehr'' 98 sword bayonets. O'Hara ([[Gary Cooper]]) briefly holds a rifle taken from a soldier in one scene.
General Yang's soldiers are armed with [[Mauser Gewehr 1898]] rifles with ''Seitengewehr'' 1914 "Gottscho" sword bayonets. O'Hara ([[Gary Cooper]]) briefly holds a rifle taken from a soldier in one scene.
The General Died at Dawn is a 1936 B&W adventure movie directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll and Akim Tamiroff. During the Chinese Civil War in the 1930s, an American adventurer O'Hara (Cooper) is hired to transport a large sum of cash to Shanghai where Mr. Wu (Digges) needs the money to buy smuggled guns and arm his men against Gen. Yang (Tamiroff), whose troops pillage the province. Another adventurer in Yang's service, Peter Perrie (Hall), plans to deceive O'Hara and get the money from him. A key figure in the plan is Perrie's daughter Judy.
The following weapons were used in the film The General Died at Dawn:
General Yang (Akim Tamiroff), his German military advisor (Hans Fuerberg), and chief bodyguard Oxford (Philip Ahn) carry Luger P08 pistols. Most of Yang's guards are armed with Luger P08 Artillery Model pistols. In the climactic, scene Brighton (William Frawley) manages to get an Artillery Luger.
General Yang's soldiers are armed with Mauser Gewehr 1898 rifles with Seitengewehr 1914 "Gottscho" sword bayonets. O'Hara (Gary Cooper) briefly holds a rifle taken from a soldier in one scene.