it seems to us that this is a case where 10,000 words would have been better than one picture." In an early screening in 1944, Variety characterized the film as a less than "spectacular" production bogged down by a plotline that lacks action elements, as "stress is laid on interior sets and romantic conflict". References Notes Citations Bibliography Buck, Pearl S. China Sky. New York: The John Day Company, Inc., 1941. Chung, Hye Seung. Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 2006. . Dolan, Edward F. Jr. Hollywood Goes to War. London: Bison Books, 1985. . Evans, Alun. Brassey's Guide to War Films. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books, 2000. . Hyams, Jay. War Movies. New York: W.H. Smith Publishers, Inc., 1984. . Koppes, Clayton R. and Gregory D. Black. Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies. New York, The Free Press, 1987. . Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2009. New York: New American Library, 2009 (originally published as TV Movies, then Leonard Maltin’s Movie & Video Guide), First edition 1969, published annually since 1988. . Nott, Robert. The Films of Randolph Scott. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2007. . Orriss, Bruce. When Hollywood Ruled the Skies: The Aviation Film Classics of World War II. Hawthorne, California: Aero Associates Inc., 1984. . Parish, James Robert. The Great Combat Pictures: Twentieth-Century Warfare on the Screen. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1990. . Twomey, Alfred E. and Arthur F. McClure. The Versatiles: A Study of Supporting Character Actors and Actresses in the American Motion Picture, 1930-1955. New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1969. . Warrick, Ruth with Don Preston. The Confessions of Phoebe Tyler. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1980. . External links 1945 films 1945 drama films American drama films 1940s English-language films Films based on American novels Films directed by Ray Enright RKO Pictures films Second Sino-Japanese War films Films set in China World War II films made in wartime Films scored by Leigh Harline American black-and-white films Films based on works by Pearl S. Buck