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# China Gate [Blu-ray]

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Olive Films DVD is a lovely print, but ….
  

*by J***. on Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2023*

Zero extras.  Considering this is a good, and important Fuller, a commentary by a Fuller scholar would be nice.  Subtitles would be appropriate, especially at this price point.  But the print is great.  A welcome addition to my Fuller collection.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Better Run Through the Jungle
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2013*

Every macho filmmaker has to make his own "Bunch of Guys on a Dangerous Mission"movie, to quote Quentin Tarantino ("Inglourious Basterds.") In 1957, tough littlecigar-chomping, shoot pistol instead of saying "Action!" writer-producer-directorSamuel Fuller made "China Gate," about a nationality-mixed squad of French ForeignLegionnaires and a curvy Eurasian doll with tumbling hair under a Chairman Mao cap.They travel up a Vietnamese river by sampan and then march through the perilous wildsto blow up a cave packed with Russian-made bombs and shells, and confront a death-dealing Red Army Major who says, "We'll bomb anything-- that's why we'll win."Call it "Apocalypse on a Fake Far-East Movie Set."  The leader of the band is Brock, played by an uncharacteristically rugged GeneBarry. The curvy Eurasian doll is Lea, or Lucky Legs (Angie Dickinson), and we aretreated to the sight of her long delectable ones stretched all the way across theCinemascope picture by way of introduction.  She married Brock, but the racist heeldeserted her and their baby son because the boy had, Brock said, "Chi-neese eyes."Lea, a double agent, has agreed to lead the squad to the Red ammo dump in thenorthward "China Gate" in return for taking her son to America.  Along the dangerous journey, we get some insight into the mercenaries of thismotley gang.  There is Goldie (Nat "King" Cole), a vet of WW II and Korean Warwho likes to sing as he cleans his "grease-gun."  There's a tough Greek, twoFrenchmen, a Vietnamese, a P.T.S.D. Hungarian who is haunted by a Russian soldierhe killed in Budapest, a German of the Hermann Goering Division who proves NOTto be a rat, and Lea's cousin Leung, who gets the thankless "coolie" job.Generally they detest Brock as much as Lea does.  1950's movie fans will enjoy Lee Van Cleef as Major Cham, a formerly sensitiveschoolteacher who has grown to love blasting villages.  He shows off the ammo caveto sexy Lea and gloats, "This is my kind of Garden, my kind of Revelation!"  Hefalls hard for that sexy Eurasian Mata Hara.  She shrugs, "I'm a little ofeverything and alot of nothing."  Other good lines are given to the German, whoavers, "I always get hurt where it doesn't show," and the Greek, who gasps, "I don'tlike for people to watch me die."  Brock replies, "We don't like it either."The most prescient line of all goes to Cpl. Pigalle.  When told that the Americansare his friends, he retorts, "I don't see them fighting over here in their ownuniforms!"  I really appreciate Sam Fuller because he tells you at the movie's beginningWHERE you are and WHEN.  Here we see the stoic-faced little boy running throughthe rubble of "the last free village in the North.  The year is 1954, the dayThursday.  All animals have been eaten.  All...but one."  The boy is hiding afrightened puppy under his shirt, and a ragged, silent, hungry-eyed Philip Ahnadvances toward them, pulling out a blade that shines in the sun like a flame.The kid runs for the safety of a French machine-gun post behind sandbags.  Themessage is clear:  you can trust the French even if you can't trust your ownneighbor.  Fuller regular Paul Dubov is reassuring as Capt. Caumont.  Victor Young and Harold Adamson wrote a wonderful theme song for "China Gate,"which reflects the majesty and tragedy of Vietnam's history.  Nat "King" Colesings:  "China Gate, China Gate, many dreams and many hearts you separate.  Like two arms open wide, some you welcome in, and some must stay outside.  Bowl of rice, bitter tea, is this all the good earth has to offer me?  Will I find peace of mind?  Does my true love wait behind the China Gate?"  The DVD from Olive Films has excellent b/w picture and sound, although with somenoticeable video speckles.  There are no extras.  The sound did not kick in untilI started the movie from the "Scenes" option. For the price, I would expect better.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Film urgently needing reissue on widescreen DVD.
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2005*

I'm giving this VHS version 4 stars instead of the 5 it really deserves because the current cropped VHS version does a grave injustice to Samuel Fuller's visual style and his creative use of cinemascope. When the film was available on 16mm I used to run it in my Samuel Fuller class to show students the type of innovative work several films exhibited in the 1950s. As it stands at the moment, the VHS cropped, pan and scan version represents a travesty of an outstanding film. As the other reviewer has noted, CHINA GATE is one of the first American films to deal with the Indo-China conflict that formed the prequel to the Vietnam War. But the casting of Angie Dickinson and Lee Van Cleef as Eurasians is not as bizarre as several reviewers noted. Lucky Legs (Dickinson) has been abandoned by Brock (Gene Barry) due to his racist reaction against his newborn son who looks Oriental. The film thus takes a more incisive look at American racism than does THE GREEN BERETS a decade later. By contrast, Lee Van Cleef's Viet-Minh commissar is a more humane end educated man than his American counterpart. He wishes to adopt Brock's son and Lucky Legs and provide the home Brock refuses to give them. However, Lucky Legs wishes her son to be an American despite her personal experience of racism from a man from "the land of the free." Like RUN OF THE ARROW, CHINA GATE deals with the complex issue of American identity and pulls no punches. Nat King Cole's Goldie has lost his wife to cancer, lives only for killing "commies", and condemns his white American counterpart for deserting his wife and child. It is one of the best performances Cole ever delivered in any American film. But, as well as exhibiting Samuel Fuller's baroque visual style indebted to yellow journalism and the comic strip (which Jean Luc-Godard appropriated in the Vietnam sequence of PIERROT LE FOU a decade later), the film opens with documentary footage before it moves on to its fictional component. As early as 1957, Fuller has already begun to blur the boundaries between documentary "reality" and "fictional" narrative to raise issues usually related to the alternative realm of experimental cinema, boundaries that were not generally questioned in contemporary Hollywood narrative. Far from being a perversely bizarre film disdained by most mainstream reviewers, past and present, CHINA GATE is actually a more challenging work dealing seriously with issues of American politics, history, and racial identity than any of its contempories. It is a film urgently needed DVD restoration restoring it to its original widescreen format with audio-commentaries by Fuller critics of the caliber of Bill Krohn and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Hopefully, some enterprising company should begin to do this soon.

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