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Victor Mature's long-suffering?? bloodhound visage is the central image in Frank Borzage's wartime romance drama China Doll?? a perfect example of what critic Andrew Sarris once referred to as Borzage's films about war as an intrusion on the emotional privacy of lovers. Mature plays Air Force Captain Cliff Brandon?? stationed in China and training elite pilots by day during World War II. At night?? Brandon becomes a drunken loner shunning the company of his men?? Red Cross nurses?? and local women who try to sell him comfort. Things change when Brandon?? stumbling home from a bar?? agrees to buy an old Chinese man's daughter?? Shu-Jen (Li Hua Li)?? for three months?? a decision the officer instantly regrets in the cold light of day. Convinced by his sole confidante--a priest (Ward Bond) running an orp