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China Doll is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Borzage released in USA on 3 december 1958 with Victor Mature
China Doll (1958)
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Add to a movie listChina Doll (a.k.a. Time Is a Memory) is a 1958 romantic drama film set in the China Burma India Theater of World War II and starring Victor Mature and Li Hua Li. It represented a return to films for director Frank Borzage who had taken a 10-year hiatus before tackling this poignant, yet "offbeat" film.
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In 1943, Captain Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) is a cargo aircraft pilot supplying the Allied troops fighting the Japanese in China. When he is not flying or training his new crew hard, he is usually drinking in the local bar.Actors
Victor Mature
(Capt. Cliff Brandon)
Ward Bond
(Father Cairns)
Li Li-Hua
(Shu-Jen)
Stuart Whitman
(Lt. Dan O'Neill)
Elaine Devry
(Alice Nichols)
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