Directed by:
Gregory RatoffCinematography:
Karl FreundComposer:
David ButtolphCast:
Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher, Keye Luke, Willie Fung, Doris Lloyd, Eily Malyon, Joan Carroll, Philip Ahn, Jonathan Hale (more)Plots(1)
The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of which was 20th Century-Fox's Barricade. While fleeing war-torn China by train, two Americans-singer Emmy Jordan (Alice Faye) and journalist Hank Topping (Warner Baxter)-are attacked by Mongol bandits. United in danger, Faye and Baxter fall in love as they attempt to escape the American embassy where they're holed up. More than one reviewer noted that Barricade resembled a modern-dress western, with the Mongol hordes substituting for American Indians. Also noted was the fact that the film had been completed as a nine-reel "A" picture in 1938, undergoing drastic cutting and script revisions before it finally emerged in its present truncated 71-minute form. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Alice Faye
USA
Best movies:
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Fallen Angel (1945)
In Old Chicago (1937)
Warner Baxter
USA
Best movies:
West of Zanzibar (1928)
42nd Street (1933)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Charles Winninger
USA
Best movies:
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Show Boat (1936)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Arthur Treacher
UK
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Mary Poppins (1964)
National Velvet (1944)
Keye Luke
China
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Willie Fung
China
Best movies:
Lost Horizon (1937)
China Seas (1935)
Tortilla Flat (1942)
Doris Lloyd
UK
Best movies:
The Sound of Music (1965)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
To Each His Own (1946)
Eily Malyon
UK
Best movies:
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Going My Way (1944)
Joan Carroll
USA
Best movies:
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Tower of London (1939)
Philip Ahn
USA
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Jonathan Hale
Canada
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Moroni Olsen
USA
Best movies:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Harry Hayden
Canada
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
May Beatty
New Zealand
Best movies:
Union Pacific (1939)
Show Boat (1936)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Edward Earle
Canada
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Paul McVey
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
Charles Tannen
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
The Country Girl (1954)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Richard Loo
USA
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
After the Thin Man (1936)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Victor Wong
USA
Best movies:
King Kong (1933)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Shanghai Express (1932)
Lee Tung Foo
USA
Best movies:
The Stratton Story (1949)
Laura (1944)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)