Ferry to Hong Kong

19591959
K-16K-16
1h 52m

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5.5/10

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Action Adventure Drama

Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain H... Read allMark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Co... Read allMark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It's all one long, ... Read all

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5.5/10

488

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Director
- Lewis Gilbert
Writers
- Vernon Harris(screenplay)
- Lewis Gilbert(screenplay)
- Max Catto(based upon the novel by)
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Curd Jürgens in Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)

Curd Jürgens and Sylvia Syms in Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)

Orson Welles, Curd Jürgens, and Jeremy Spenser in Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)

Orson Welles and Curd Jürgens in Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)

Trivia
This was the first Rank Organisation film in CinemaScope. It was filmed entirely on location in Hong Kong and Macao and at sea between the two ports, and it cost £500,000, making it the most expensive Rank film ever, to that time. It was a box-office and critical flop.

Connections
Featured in The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry (1996)

Soundtracks
The Four Seasons
Traditional
Arranged by Fu-Ling Wang (as Fook Ling Wong)

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Review

Featured review

5/10

Beating the dragon

Ferry to Hong Kong is a mildly amusing film due to an obese Orson Welles treating the film as a farcical comedy. He plays Captain Hart, who despite the prissy exterior is a bit of a blackguard. He runs an old ferry between Hong Kong to Macau.

Hart is stuck with Mark Conrad (Curd Jürgens) a drunken, troublemaker, expelled from Hong Kong and denied entry to Macau. He is destined to remain a passenger on the ferry much to Hart's anger, he even sets up a rigged bet to get rid off this unwanted passenger. Despite looking dishevelled Conrad earns the sympathy of Liz (Sylvia Syms) who is a teacher to some children regularly on board.

Conrad and Captain Hart have to set aside their mutual loathing when the ship encounters a typhoon and later seized by pirates with Conrad having to take responsibility and control of the situation the ship's passengers find themselves in.

The film benefits from the Hong Kong location shooting which provides a colourful backdrop, the script is pedestrian and at times hammy as Welles performance.

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