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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
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Release Date:
26 September 1955 (Sweden)
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The price they pay when they come out of their secret garden and face the world in modern-day Hong Kong - makes this one of the screen's unforgettable experiences! more
Plot:
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars.
Another 2 wins
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5 nominations
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Sentimental romance
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| William Holden | ... | Mark Elliott | |
| Jennifer Jones | ... | Dr. Han Suyin | |
| Torin Thatcher | ... | Humphrey Palmer-Jones | |
| Isobel Elsom | ... | Adeline Palmer-Jones | |
| Murray Matheson | ... | Dr. John Keith | |
| Virginia Gregg | ... | Anne Richards | |
| Richard Loo | ... | Robert Hung | |
| Soo Yong | ... | Nora Hung | |
| Philip Ahn | ... | Third Uncle | |
| Jorja Curtright | ... | Suzanne | |
| Donna Martell | ... | Suchen, Suyin's sister |
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Runtime:
102 min
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2.55 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording) (optical prints) |
4-Track Stereo (Western Electric Recording) (magnetic prints)
Certification:
Australia:G (DVD rating) |
Netherlands:AL |
West Germany:12 (f) |
USA:Approved (certificate #17475) |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:S |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:U
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The aircraft that returns Mark to Hong Kong is Pan American World Airways N6535C, named "Clipper Mercury". It was a Douglas DC-6B, which entered service 1952 and left service 1961.
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Crew or equipment visible: When the orderly comes to get Dr. Han in the operating room at the beginning of the movie, one of the members of the film crew (a man wearing glasses) can be seen reflected in the window of the right-hand door to the O.R.
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Quotes:
Third Uncle:
We shall now have tea and speak of absurdities.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002) (TV)
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
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This movie will likely be too sentimental for many viewers, especially contemporary audiences. Nevertheless I enjoyed this film thanks mostly to the down-to-earth charm of William Holden, one of my favorite stars, and the dazzling beauty of Jennifer Jones. There are some truly heartwarming scenes between the pair and the talent of these two actors rescues what in lesser hands could've been trite lines. The cinematography of Hong Kong from the period of filming is another highlight of this movie. All in all, a better than average romantic drama, 7/10.