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Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.


“Hitting the screen with the force of a raging typhoon!”
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.

John Payne
Charles S. Chinnough

Gail Russell
Kim Mitchell

Jeffrey Lynn
Capt. George Brendensen

Lon Chaney Jr.
Red Lynch

Edgar Bergen
Mr. Haasvelt

Michael O'Shea
Trask

Ellen Corby
Miss Endicott

Robert Armstrong
Keegan

John Qualen
Geech

Ilka Grüning
Mrs. Marguerite Haasvelt
Captain China is a action, adventure, romance film released in 1950 exploring themes of china, reef, typhoon. Directed by Lewis R. Foster, it stars John Payne, Gail Russell, Jeffrey Lynn. The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.
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