Search - Bombs Over Burma on DVD

Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1942 DVD Release: 06/28/2005 Format: DVD - Black and White SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 5 mins Studio: Alpha Video Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Spy Film, Action, Adventure, War, War Drama

Of the two PRC Anna May Wong vehicles filmed during the 1942-43 season, Bombs Over Burma is marginally the best, thanks to the cinematic savvy of writer-director Joseph H. Lewis. Relying more on strong visuals than clever dialogue, the film details the contributions of the courageous Chinese guerilla fighters in keeping the Burma Road safe for Allied transport vehicles during WW2. During the arduous construction of the serpentine thoroughfare, a number of Chinese workers are killed by a mysterious saboteur. It turns out that the assailant is English nobleman Sir Roger Howe (Leslie Denison), who is actually a Nazi agent. Chinese schoolteacher Lin Yung (Anna May Wong) is the freedom fighter responsible for the unmasking and ultimate destruction of the duplicitous Sir Roger (the villain's death scene is the film's hands-down highlight). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Noel Madison - Me-hoi
Leslie Denison - Sir Roger Howe
Ned Young - Slim Jenkins
Dan Seymour - Pete Braganza