INTRIGUE IN CHINA
"'The General Died at Dawn" A gyipping drama of intrigue, iomance and adventure, "The General Died at Dawn," a Paramount picture which hegins to-morrow at the Regent Theatre brings Gar.y Cooper to the screen in another colourful soldiei'-of-t'ortune role. With modern China as its background, the plot of "The General Died at Dawn" revolves around the awakening of China to the oppressions of her predatory war-lords and the beginning of a spirit of reeistanoe. Cooper,
as the champion of the down-trodden, is in the ranks of the new movement. Playing opposite him is beautiful Madeleine Carroll in the role of the lure held out by a war-lord to lead Cooper to destruction. "The General Died at Dawn" is the fchrilling story of a love that blooms l,etween a man to whom danger is life and the girl who was paid to gei him out of the way Having trapped him she soon finds hcrsclf enmeshed in the same web. Remorse causes her ti offer her life for the fi'eedom of the man ihe loves. In a thrilling climax the oair snatch happiness and love froin the very jaws of death and save the cause to which the man had dedicated his life.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 6, 22 January 1937, Page 13
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