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| starring = Randolph Scott Ruth Warrick Ellen Drew Anthony Quinn | music = Leigh Harline | cinematography = Nicholas Musuraca | editing = Marvin Coil Gene Milford | studio = RKO Radio Pictures | distributor = RKO Pictures | released = | runtime = 78 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }} ''China Sky'' (aka ''Pearl Buck's China Sky'') is a 1945 RKO Pictures film based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck. ). Buck was an American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Her novel, ''The Good Earth'' was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1938) "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."〔Meyers, Mike. ("Pearl of the Orient." ) ''The New York Times,'' March 5, 2006.〕|group=N}} 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 oriental roles.〔Koppes and Black 1987, pp. 256–260.〕 ''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.〔Evans 2000, p. 41.〕〔Dolan 1985, p. 51.〕〔Hyams 1984. pp. 65, 67, 89, 93.〕 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.〔Koppes and Black 1987, pp. 236–238.〕 ==Plot== Dr. Gray Thompson, (Randolph Scott) an American missionary doctor, works alongside Dr. Sara Durand (Ruth Warrick) in a hospital he has built in a small hilltop Chinese village, while Japanese forces descend on China. When Gray returns for a trip, he shocks Sara (who is in love with him) by introducing his new socialite wife, Louise (Ellen Drew). Bored and feeling out of place, Louise tries to persuade him to give up his dangerous cause. In the midst of aerial bombing attacks on the village, Dr. Thompson unselfishly helps the local residents, and especially the insurgent leader Chen-Ta (Anthony Quinn) who loves nurse Siu-Mei (Carol Thurston), betrothed to Dr. Kim (Philip Ahn), a sympathetic Chinese/Korean doctor. Col. Yasuda (Richard Loo), a high-ranking, injured Japanese prisoner, manipulates Dr. Kim into sending a (coded) message, purportedly from Louise, to his side that the village is secretly harboring an ammunition dump. Gray and the others become puzzled when Japanese airplanes stop attacking their village,. When Japanese paratroops descend on the village, Gray organizes the defense and sends a messenger to Chen Ta. During the brutal fighting, Yasuda fatally shoots Dr. Kim and grazes Gray. A distraught Louise runs out into the line of fire and is killed. The Japanese are defeated when Chen Ta and his men arrive on horseback. He promises to return for Siu Mei after the invaders have been driven out of their country. As the air raids begin again, the two doctors stoically face the next air raid together. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「China Sky (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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