China Gate (1957 film)

China Gate
Theatrical poster
Directed bySamuel Fuller
Written bySamuel Fuller
Produced bySamuel Fuller
StarringGene Barry
Angie Dickinson
CinematographyJoseph F. Biroc
Cinemascope
Edited byGene Fowler Jr.
Music byVictor Young
Max Steiner
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Globe Enterprises
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • May 22, 1957 (1957-05-22) (New York City)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150,000[1]

China Gate is a 1957 American CinemaScope war film written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller and released through 20th Century Fox. The film is set during the First Indochina War (1946–1954), and depicts the relationship between a sergeant of the French Foreign Legion and the Eurasian wife whom he had abandoned.

  1. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989 p251