"Lia (Angie Dickinson), a Eurasian abandoned in French Indo-China with her half-Chinese son, becomes a prostitute, sleeping, apolitically, with capitalists and Communists alike. In a desperate attempt to get her son to America, she agrees to guide an expedition of saboteurs to a Communist ammunition dump.
"‘In `50s Hollywood, so anxious that its grey flannel should offend none, Fuller, Kazan, Aldrich and Losey renewed the bloody-minded relish of rending conflict.... Once accepted, China Gate becomes the only American Cold War film of the `50s with intimations of maturity.' Raymond Dugnat" --Edinburgh Film Festival