[PW] WWII movie set on South Pacific Island

[Ellen Cousins]

Here is a more complete description of China (1943):

Synopsis

In 1941, in Mei-Ki, China, war profiteer David Jones narrowly escapes 
with his life when Chinese Captain Tao-Yuan-Kai arrests him for selling 
oil to the Japanese but releases him because he is American. Japanese 
planes bomb the town, and Jones drives toward Shanghai with his partner, 
Johnny Sparrow, who has brought with him an orphaned baby boy. After 
nightfall, they are forced to stop because Chinese refugees crowd the 
road and beat the Americans until Carolyn Grant, an American 
schoolteacher born in China, tells them to stop. Carolyn sneaks her 
group of female college students into the back of Jones's truck and 
insists that Jones proceed without headlights because they might be 
sighted by Japanese bombers. As she has an intimate knowledge of the 
local terrain, Carolyn takes over driving the truck, and has her friend, 
Lin Wei, sit on the hood to watch for potholes. When Jones realizes that 
Carolyn has loaded his truck with refugees, he ruthlessly starts to 
throw them out, fearing that the extra load will use up the gas he needs 
to get to Shanghai, but relents when he learns that the students are 
young women...

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Ellen C.