Mov. 8 movie: China Sky. This movie was pretty bad. Randolph Scott stars as an American doctor in a Chinese village that supports rebel fighters against the Japanese occupation. Take away the appalling stereotypes (the inscrutable Korean doctor who turns bad, the smart alecky "Short Rib" Chinese kid who loves American music and slang) and there's not much there. I only watched it because Ruth Warrick -- Aunt Phoebe from All My Children -- was in it. She looked really different back then. The movie also features Anthony Quinn as the leader of the mountain rebels. I know they used to do that all the time, but it still annoys me. Thirty Seconds over Tokyo managed to find actual Asian people to play the Asian parts; why couldn't this movie?
With about a half-hour to go I accidently pushed the wrong button on the DVR remote and wiped out the end of the movie. (You can pause a show and it will save it for up to an hour without recording, but if you change the channel it loses everything.) No big loss.
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