- HD 1080
- Runtime: 98m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Lewis Milestone
- Stars: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall
- keywords: rescue, shanghai, china, war crimes, arms deal, greed, mercenary, renegade, warlord, chinese civil war, deception, murder, gunshot wound, mass suicide, oppression, adventurer, somber, 1930s, father daughter relationship, american in china
- Production_studio: Paramount Pictures
- The The General Died at Dawn is featured in the top rankings of 1936
- #41 in Top Drama Movies of 1936
- #6 in Top Thriller Movies of 1936
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.