Oil for the Lamps of China
An American working for his oil company in China disregards all but the company's interests.
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"Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien) is sent by his American oil company and tasked to introduce oil for lamps in China. He is in Japan to marry his girlfriend but he gets stood up. He meets Hester Adams (Josephine Hutchinson) and convinces her to join him. He is a loyal company man even when the company isn't loyal to him. China descends into a chaotic revolution. It's an interesting drama of a man with certain initial ideals. I don't agree with them but that's besides the point. It's an interesting start and a fine turn. I like this and then the movie ends in a certain ..."
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Based on the novel by the same title by Alice Tisdale Hobart who had married an executive of the Standard Oil Company in China. The book was published in 1933 - the year after Japan had conquered Manchuria. The story takes place from the early 1900s roughly through the Nationalist Chinse Revolution of 1923-27.
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An American working for his oil company in China disregards all but the company's interests.