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Blood on the Sun (1945)

APPROVED 98 min  -  Action | Drama | War  -   15 October 1945 (Sweden)
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Nick Condon is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the expansionist policies of the anti-democratic Imperialist government... See full summary »

Director:

Frank Lloyd

Writers:

Lester Cole (screenplay), Nathaniel Curtis (additional scenes), and 2 more credits »
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Blood on the Sun -- The U.S. editor of a Tokyo newspaper smuggles out a Japanese military plan several years before World War II Blood on the Sun -- Nick Condon is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the expansionist policies of the anti-democratic Imperialist government...
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James Cagney ...
Sylvia Sidney ...
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John Emery John Emery ...
Robert Armstrong Robert Armstrong ...
Wallace Ford Wallace Ford ...
Rosemary DeCamp Rosemary DeCamp ...
John Halloran John Halloran ...
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James Bell James Bell ...
Charley Sprague
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Joseph Cassell
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Nick Condon is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the expansionist policies of the anti-democratic Imperialist government. When it become clear to the authorities that Condon isn't going to cooperate and that he has some valuable information and contacts, they decide to get him in their clutches for some interrogations and then dispose of him. Written by Alfred Jingle  

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Plot Keywords:

Newspaper | Newspaper Editor | Traitor | Hero | Martial Artist  | See more »

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To know their secret is to court Death ! See more »

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Action | Drama | War | Romance | Thriller

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Country:

USA

Language:

English | Japanese

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 | (TCM print)

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

The Japanese Tanaka Plan was examined in the documentary The Battle of China], episode 6 of the "Why We Fight" series by Frank Capra. According to the book 'Brassey's Guide to War Films' by Alun Evans, this movie is "Fiction highlighting fact, but a strange release date. One would have thought that the unearthing of the Tanaka Plan . . . might have received dramatic attention by Hollywood before Pearl Harbor, rather than at the end of the war. The Tanaka Plan, the blueprint for Japanese world domination - which actually specified the taking out of Pearl Harbor - was uncovered in 1927, but this dramatisation has [James] Cagney as U.S. newspaper man in [19]'20s Japan printing the story." See more »

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: Right after Ollie Miller gets shot you see him stumbling to the ground. When he gets up, under his left elbow you can see carpet moving in what should be grass. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Arthur Bickett: But gentlemen, I know nothing about this article being printed. I was out of town.
Secret Police Major Kajioka: Then let me read what is printed here in your paper. "If Japan wants to control China we must first crush the United States just as in the past we have to fight in the Russo-Japanese war."
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