Bombs Over Burma (1942)
Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent.
THE AVENGING ANGEL TO A MILLION DEVILS!
The earliest documented telecast of this film in the New York City area occurred Monday 12 November 1945 on pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1). In Detroit it first aired Wednesday 29 December 1948 on WXYZ (Channel 7), in Albuquerque Saturday 19 February 1949 on KOB (Channel 4), in both Washington DC and Baltimore Tuesday 3 May 1949 on WMAL (Channel 7) and on WAAM (Channel 13), and in Atlanta Saturday 22 October 1949 on WAGA (Channel 5).
This was the first of only two films made by accomplished Chinese-American Hollywood star Anna May Wong during the war years. Both films were made by the poverty row studio PRC (Producers Releasing Corporation). It would be the end of the decade before she would appear in another feature film.