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East of the Rising Sun (1949)
"Malaya" (original title)

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Newspaperman Royer convinces government officials of a plan to obtain rubber by stealing it out from under the Japanese. Carnahan is let out of prison to help.

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
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Carnahan
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John Royer
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Luana (as Valentina Cortesa)
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The Dutchman
John Hodiak ...
Kellar
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John Manchester
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Romano
Roland Winters ...
Bruno Gruber
Richard Loo ...
Colonel Genichi Tomura
Ian MacDonald ...
Carlos Tassuma
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Matisson
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Lester Matthews ...
Matisson (scenes deleted)
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After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye. Written by garykmcd

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world war two

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Adventure | Drama

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24 April 1950 (Sweden)  »

Also Known As:

Operation Malaya  »

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1.37 : 1
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Trivia

The PT Boat attack on the cruiser was lifted from the film They Were Expendable See more »

Goofs

Spenser Tracy says to Luana that the Earth is moving toward the Sun at the rate of a half an inch a century. In fact, the Earth is in a stable orbit that over an astronomical time scale will in fact move away from the Sun. As the Sun loses mass as it fuses hydrogen into helium, the Earth's orbit will increase by a minuscule amount; approximately 150,000 kilometers over approximately the next 5 to 6 billion years. See more »

Quotes

Carnaghan: A man can't belong to the world, it's too big, and every night it dies.
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Edited from They Were Expendable (1945) See more »

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A great blend of 40's patriotism and film noir
19 November 2006 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

Someone had the wits to make a 1940's patriotic war movie in the style of film noir. Is it hokey? Of course it is!! But when it's done like this, you have a sense of watching a war film at its best. Part of it is a literate script that goes far beyond the usual patriotic hoo-ha and gives a sense of real urgency to the war in Asia. Part of it is some totally professional acting by Stewart, Tracy, Greenstreet and, not least, John Hodiak in the role of an FBI agent. If you're bored, as I am, by the John Wayne, flag-waving nonsense that proliferated during the war, try this on. It manages to be improbable and believable at the same time.


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