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
Adolph Milar
Switzerland
Best movies:
Come and Get It (1936)
Man Hunt (1941)
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Eddie Lee
USA
Best movies:
China Seas (1935)
The Clay Pigeon (1949)
China (1943)
Chester Gan
USA
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
After the Thin Man (1936)
San Francisco (1936)
Victor Sen Yung
USA
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
Woman on the Run (1950)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Louis Mercier
Algeria
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Ernesto Molinari
Italy
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)