Overtly the master Samuel Fuller spotlight and approaching the mix-up of the ethnicities on some pictures for instance as "The Crimson Kimono", "House of Bamboo" and now "China Gate" all them prospecting this neuralgic issue, here exposing the American Sgt. Brock (Gene Barry) that was involved and married a half-breed China girl Lucy (Angie Dickinson) when she gets pregnant, the Sgt. Brock supposed that his son should be more Caucasian than Chinese, well the boy actually was born with a true Chinese kind, daunted he refuses the boy and soon disappears, Lucy comes into depression, on erratic life on prostitution and diving deeply on alcoholism, after seven years in absence the bleak Sgt. Brock was designed to a hard assignment at Indochina when he meets again the doll Lucy legs which she got the nickname for your beauty legs always allures the key persons thought her exotic beauty, also he meets his son, the French Army calls Lucy for a fair deal, if she guide the bomb squad at China Gate where the commies are storing a huge secret arsenal of bombs and guns underneath of the mountain, his son should be expatriate to America as American citizen, due his father really is, using several stock footage and almost shot at sound studio this movie has their enchants, touching in the racism, also enforces the virtue of democracy against the reds system, which the men weren't master of their own destiny, as far I remember Angie Dickinson was pretty than never, young and gorgeous, the famous and charismatic black singer Nat King Cole is another precious and colorful character, without forget the famous squad "The Big Red One" was quote for first time in this picture, that will be the smashing success and seminal masterpiece of Fuller on the future!!
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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.25
