China Doll
China Doll

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In China gruff Air Force captain Cliff Brandon wakes up after a night of drinking to discover he has purchased the housekeeping services of comely, young Shu-Jen from her father. Disappointed by Cliff's insistence on staying out late in bars, Shu-Jen leaves for home when Cliff, made aware that she is carrying her child, finds her and marries her in a delightful traditional Chinese ceremony. Happy days are spent as Shu-Jen and her infant daughter join Cliff at a forward base u... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in China Doll:

Victor Mature
Li Li-Hua
Ward Bond
Bob Mathias
Johnny Desmond
Stuart Whitman

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In China gruff Air Force captain Cliff Brandon wakes up after a night of drinking to discover he has purchased the housekeeping services of comely, young Shu-Jen from her father. Disappointed by Cliff's insistence on staying out late in bars, Shu-Jen leaves for home when Cliff, made aware that she is carrying her child, finds her and marries her in a delightful traditional Chinese ceremony. Happy days are spent as Shu-Jen and her infant daughter join Cliff at a forward base until Cliff, returning from a supply-drop mission, hears the base is under attack by Japanese bombers.

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Slant Magazine - 9/10 by Dan CallahanChina Doll is a delicate, spare, old man's movie, with quiet attention to character detail.
User Review - 10/10 by Greg WThis is meant to be a simple, enjoyable, humorous, emotional, and entertaining movie. And it fits that description to a "T". It is modest budget yet has a remarkable cast who develop their characters rapidly and well. Vic Mature's acting is better than normal, in my opinion, and Ward Bond, as always is the "glue" and scene stealer that he has been from his very first film. Borzage does not pay attention to aircraft and aerial detail although to the ordinary aircraft layman, the scenes are very realistic. It tells the story of an emotionally deprived captain, (we never truly find out what has caused this although other reviewers have stated it is because of the men he has lost doing his job which is training crews to drop supplies to the US behind enemy lines). Because of his problem, he drinks to keep it at bay and associates himself as a friend to very few people.....Ward Bond as Father Cairns is one. He awakes one morning and eventually, through the help of Father Cairns, finds that he has purchased the services of a young Eurasian girl for three months. His determination to keep her as only a housekeeper dissolves during a bout of malaria when he was delirious. The rest of the story should be saved for your enjoyment. Because that is what it will give you if you take it for what it is. The scenes before the ending have been criticized, but I found them to be exactly what I and any responsible and well trained service man would have done. Without giving the whole ending away, every member of his crew returns home safely "with his dog tags" which is a significant part of the film. Keith Payne
User Review - 6/10 by Paul DThere is an epic movie somewhere in the script of China Doll, but audiences will never see it. The beginning of the film betrays the viewer. The film starts off smartly introducing the characters, their environment, and subsequent interactions. China Doll (1958, Frank Borzage) is similar to Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955, Henry King) starring William Holden and Jennifer Jones, but is frankly better than that film as it contains a better opening and middle. The end of the film is its downfall. Rushed, confusing, and clichéd Li Hua Li's single-mother character must navigate war-torn country with babe-in-arms (sounds like its been done before). Speaking of Li Hua Li, she is very good even in the most dreadful of scenes towards the film's end, but shines in the early portions of the film and she matches and out-performs seasoned leading-man Victor Mature in almost every scene. When watching Victor Mature the viewer gets the sense that there is a good actor hiding under that crusty exterior, a good actor who doesn't seem challenged, but Li Hua Li brings Mature out of his haze. The two leads work very well together and the audience must thank veteran director Frank Borzage for that accomplishment as he handled this type of material before. Also, it is interesting to note the inter-racial relationship between the white American male pilot and the female Asian domestic in a 1950s film.

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