Dragon Seed 1944. Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Turhan Bey, Agnes Moorehead, Hurd Hatfield, Akim Tamiroff, Henry Travers
As the Second Sino-Japanese War erupts in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of northern China, the rural Tan family in southern China go about their daily chores without notice of the impending conflict. Jade (Katharine Hepburn), wife of Lao Er Tan (Turhan Bey), desires books, an unconventional request for a Chinese wife. But when war finally reaches the family, Jade is first to join the resistance, leading pacifist patriarch Ling Tan (Walter Huston) to concern over his family's entry in the war.