barricade find alice faye without any song a a refugee try to flee china and without passport . she in a heap of trouble and i would not say what exactly and and even american extraterritoriality would not help her out . i mention that because one of the grievance that the chinese include the bandit who attack the american mission in this story set deep in the chinese interior be that particular institution whereby american citizen who commit crime be try by american court set up by our consulate . we be far from the only country do that however . anyway the story open with her on a train for shanghai try to use a hokey russian accent . the accent intrigue warner baxter who pretty plaster . bandit however interrupt the journey and the two of them seek refuge in the american consulate preside over by charles winninger . he the best one in the film and i only wish that a good story be give because i like his character . he a widower and a proud member of the consular service and appoint in 1900 by william mckinley . he request a transfer ten year later and that the last he be hear from . a assistant secretary of state jonathan hale aptly put it and he the real forgotten man . baxter do all right in a role that someone like clark gable would have do in his sleep at mgm . the heroic would have come more natural to gable than to baxter a the mission be barricade and defend against the bandit . alice faye do have one number to sing . why alice song be cut out and god and zanuck only know . one thing i be still try to figure out be when the mission inhabitant take final refuge in the cellar with a trap door and just who be leave upstairs to pull the rug over the cellar door . barricade have the potential to be a lot good than it be . but sloppy editing and lose faith in the project make 20th century fox release a project unfulfilled . watch barricade be like eat a badly cook meal .