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Top billed cast

Lon ChaneySergeant O'Hara
William HainesPrivate Skeet Burns
Eleanor BoardmanNorma Dale
Eddie GribbonCorporal Madden
Carmel MyersZaya
Warner OlandChinese Bandit Chief
Mitchell LewisNative
Frank CurrierGeneral Wilcox
Maurice E. KainsHarry
Lori BaraNavy Nurse

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