Night Plane from Chungking (1943)

Talking of Rana Mitter’s new book on China during the war yesterday I thought I’d mention the almost forgotten  1943 wartime propaganda movie Night Plane From Chungking. A quite interesting B-movie that was essentially a remake of Josef von Strernberg’s much better Shanghai Express (1932 – with Dietrich, Anna May Wong etc etc). Night Plane has no great stars or particular talent attached to it though there are plenty of dodgy White Russians, duplicitous characters etc. A bit more on it here.