Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
Robert Preston
as Nick Stanton
Ellen Drew
as Ann Richards
Otto Kruger
as Albert Pasavy
Steven Geray
as Reverend Ven Der Lieden
Tamara Geva
as Olga Karagin
Soo Yong
as Madame Wu
Victor Sen Yung
as Captain Po
Ernst Deutsch
as Major Brissac
Allen Jung
as Lieutenant Tang
