這是敘述2戰時期發生於中國戰爭的故事女主角李麗華與Victor Mature 合作主演精彩可惜好像當時的台灣未上映? 本片在美國加州SAUGUS 搭景拍攝雲南昆明某空軍基地及其附屬設施並聘請當地華僑ˊ支援
China Doll (a.k.a Time Is a Memory) is a 1958 romantic drama film set in the China Burma India Theater of World War II and starring Victor Mature and Li Hua Li. It represented a return to films for director Frank Borzage who had taken a 10-year hiatus before tackling this poignant, yet "offbeat" film.
In 1943, Captain Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) is a cargo aircraft pilot supplying the Allied troops fighting the Japanese in China. When he is not flying or training his new crew hard, he is usually drinking in the local bar.
One night, while stumbling home drunk, he encounters an old Chinese man who offers him a girl, his daughter Shu-Jen (Li Hua Li). Brandon pays him, but when he sees the young woman, he tells the old man to keep her. When he wakes up the next morning, he finds Shu-Jen there. After Father Cairns (Ward Bond), a longtime resident of China, expresses his disapproval, Brandon tries his best to get rid of her, assigning the task to Ellington, a young Chinese boy who speaks English well. Ellington tries to sell her into prostitution, but Father Cairns happens by and takes Shu-Jen back to Brandon.
The priest finds out that Shu-Jen's father was a farmer, but he lost his land to the Japanese invaders. Destitute, he sold his daughter's services for three months to feed the rest of his large family. Cairns tells Brandon that, if he were to send the girl back, the old man would return the desperately needed money. So, over Brandon's protests, the priest gets him to keep the girl; Brandon tells her that she is there only as a housekeeper.
He makes Ellin
gton his live-in interpreter.
Over time, however, love blooms, and Shu-Jen becomes pregnant. They get married in a traditional Chinese ceremony. After he is transferred to another base, she gives birth to their daughter. Later, they are reunited.
While Brandon is flying a mission, the base is attacked. The returning flight is ordered to divert to a different airfield, but Brandon disobeys and lands his aircraft. When he cannot locate his family, he orders his crew to leave with the survivors. Then he finds Shu-Jen and Ellington both dead, but his daughter is alive. He puts his dog tag around her neck, then mans an anti-aircraft gun and shoots down one or two enemy aircraft before he is killed.
In 1957, his former crewmates and their wives anxiously await the arrival in the United States of Brandon's daughter, found in an orphanage by Father Cairns, still with her father's dog tag.
1943年，崖布蘭頓上尉（維克托成熟）是一個提供盟軍部隊戰鬥的日本人在中國的貨運飛機飛行員。當他不飛行或努力訓練他的新船員，他通常是在當地的酒吧喝酒。
一天晚上，當絆腳石喝醉回家，他遇到一個老的中國人，誰提供他一個姑娘，他的女兒蜀仁（李華） 。布蘭登付給他，但是當他看見年輕女子，他讓她告訴老頭。當他第二天早上醒來時，他發現那裡蜀仁。後父凱恩斯（沃德債券） ，中國長期居住的，表達他的不滿，布蘭登盡他最大的擺脫她，將任務分配到埃林頓，一個年輕的中國男孩誰講英語。埃林頓試圖出售她賣淫，但父親凱恩斯發生，並採取蜀仁布蘭登。
神父發現蜀仁的父親是一個農民，但他失去了他的土地，日本侵略者。他窮困潦倒，他女兒的銷售服務，為3個月來養活剩下的他的大家族。凱恩斯告訴布蘭登，如果他送女孩回來，老漢將返回迫切需要錢。所以，牧師了布蘭登的抗議，讓他保持的女孩;布蘭登告訴她，她只是作為一個管家。他使得埃林頓他活在翻譯的。
然而，隨著時間的推移，愛情的花朵，蜀仁變成孕婦。他們結婚了中國傳統儀式。之後，他被轉移到另一個基地，她生下他們的女兒。後來，他們又團聚了。
雖然布蘭登飛行任務，該基地被攻擊。回程航班奉命轉移到一個不同的機場，但布蘭登不服從和土地他的飛機。當他無法找到他的家人，他命令他的船員留下的倖存者。然後，他發現蜀仁和埃林頓都死了，但他的女兒還活著。他把他的狗牌在她的脖子上，然後芒一或兩架敵機高射砲和竹筍下來之前，他被殺害。
1957年，他的前乘務員和他們的妻子焦急地等待著布蘭登的女兒在一所孤兒院，發現由父親凱恩斯在美國的到來，還是她父親的狗牌。Principal photography took place in 1958 with location shooting at Saugus, California. To faithfully recreate the Kunming Airfield, documentary footage from World War II was incorporated.
