Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 102m
Director: Henry King
Cast: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher
Synopsis:
A married American correspondent in Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution pursues an affair with a widowed Anglo-Chinese doctor, incurring disapproval from her family and his friends.
Review:
The course of true love never runs smooth but it does wonders at the box office, especially if there is a hit song attached. This affecting drama was a hit for Fox but has since been overtaken by racial politics' requirement that a white American should not play a Chinese (though it is fine for a black actor, or even actress, to play Hamlet).
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 102m
Director: Henry King
Cast: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher
Synopsis:
A married American correspondent in Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution pursues an affair with a widowed Anglo-Chinese doctor, incurring disapproval from her family and his friends.
Review:
The course of true love never runs smooth but it does wonders at the box office, especially if there is a hit song attached. This affecting drama was a hit for Fox but has since been overtaken by racial politics' requirement that a white American should not play a Chinese (though it is fine for a black actor, or even actress, to play Hamlet).
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 102m
Director: Henry King
Cast: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher
Synopsis:
A married American correspondent in Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution pursues an affair with a widowed Anglo-Chinese doctor, incurring disapproval from her family and his friends.
Review:
The course of true love never runs smooth but it does wonders at the box office, especially if there is a hit song attached. This affecting drama was a hit for Fox but has since been overtaken by racial politics' requirement that a white American should not play a Chinese (though it is fine for a black actor, or even actress, to play Hamlet).