"The Mountain Road" (1960) starring James Stewart and Harry Morgan. For a war movie of its time, it is remarkably subtle and thoughtful. A US Army Air Force base in WW2 China is being abandoned to advancing Japanese forces. After demolishing the base and its runways, the demolition team is told to retreat along a mountain road destroying whatever parts of the road they can to slow down the Japanese.
It is a story of humanity at war with the worst aspects of wartime and its negative effects on humanity. Really it is a very sweet story of people under harrowing conditions trying to do their best.
And lots of explosions when CG was not available.
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