

Love-Lust, Courage and Cowardice, Faith-Fury and Sacrifice!
11/12/1965
Overview
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
John Ford Productions

Bernard Smith Productions

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060050
Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2261553
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Review by: CinemaSerf
Written by: CinemaSerf on 2024-09-05T08:08:57.763Z
This is quite a curious swan-song for John Ford. An almost all-woman cast led by Anne Bancroft and Margaret Leighton are stranded in a remote missionary. When the local army battalion abandon their posts, a gang of marauding warriors take over their home and at some considerable risk to themselves, they must try and survive the encounter - and a cholera outbreak too. To be honest, not a lot goes on and the character depicted by Bancroft - a confident, self-reliant doctor, is oddly out of place for the scenario; especially when placed with the rather timid, puritanical, Leighton and a really under-used Flora Robson as "Miss Binns", and the ending is all just a bit too sudden.