The groundbreaking novel behind Frank Capra's melodrama starring
Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther.
Traveling to Shanghai to marry her medical missionary fiance, the
beautiful Megan Davis finds herself caught in the toils of civil
war between Republican and Communist forces. Determined to save the
inhabitants of an orphanage in a Communist-occupied city nearby,
Megan joins a nighttime rescue mission that ends up under attack by
a mob. She avoids death only thanks to the intervention of General
Yen, who brings her to his palace, where they come to form an
unlikely trust and companionship in one another. As the political
climate sours and violence outside the palace walls escalates, the
motives behind various associates of the General are called into
suspicion, leading to an unexpected and irreparable betrayal.
Originally published in 1930, this absorbing novel of war-torn
China was adapted into film in 1933.
With a new foreword by Victoria Wilson.
Vintage Movie Classics spotlights classic films that have stood the
test of time, now rediscovered through the publication of the
novels on which they were based.
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