| China Sky | |
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| Directed by | Ray Enright |
| Screenplay by | Joseph Hoffman Brenda Weisberg |
| Based on | China Sky (1941 novel) by Pearl S. Buck |
| Produced by | Jack J. Gross |
| Starring | Randolph Scott Ruth Warrick Ellen Drew Anthony Quinn |
| Cinematography | Nicholas Musuraca |
| Edited by | Marvin Coil Gene Milford |
| Music by | Leigh Harline |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Pictures |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
China Sky (aka Pearl Buck's China Sky) is a 1945 RKO Pictures film based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck. [N 1] It was directed by Ray Enright and featured movie idol Randolph Scott, teamed with Ruth Warrick, Ellen Drew and Anthony Quinn. Although set in wartime China, Quinn and other lead actors portrayed Chinese characters, in keeping with other period films that employed Caucasian actors in Asian roles.[3]
China Sky was one of the last in a succession of wartime films depicting the Chinese confronting Japanese invaders that included: A Yank on the Burma Road (1942), China Girl (1942), Flying Tigers (1942), China (1943), Behind the Rising Sun (1943), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Dragon Seed (1944), God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) and China's Little Devils, released May 27, 1945.[4][5][6] Similar to many of the other treatments, Chinese characters in China Sky were in secondary or subservient roles, with the versatile and highly malleable Quinn taking on another nationality, having already played countless other roles as an Indian, Mafia don, Hawaiian chief, Filipino freedom-fighter, French pirate, Spanish bullfighter and Arab sheik.[7][N 2]
- ^ "China Sky: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
- ^ Meyers, Mike. "Pearl of the Orient." The New York Times, March 5, 2006.
- ^ Koppes and Black 1987, pp. 256–260.
- ^ Evans 2000, p. 41.
- ^ Dolan 1985, p. 51.
- ^ Hyams 1984. pp. 65, 67, 89, 93.
- ^ Koppes and Black 1987, pp. 236–238.
- ^ "Actor Anthony Quinn Dies": "Anthony Rudolph Oaxaca Quinn was born on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, where his half-Irish father Francisco (Frank) Quinn had married a Mexican girl of Aztec Indian ancestry, Manuela, while fighting for revolutionary leader Pancho Villa."] via Reuters in Wired, June 3, 2001. Retrieved: June 19, 2009.
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