Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Synopsis: Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent in Hong Kong, separated from his wife. During the closing days of the Chinese Civil War, he meets and pursues a beautiful Eurasian doctor, the widow of a Nationalist general. But when they begin to fall in love, their friends and her Chinese family pressure them to stop the cross-cultural relationship.

Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance

Director(s): Henry King, Otto Lang

Actors: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom

Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Won 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.


IMDB:: 6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:: 50%

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: UNRATED
Year:: 1955
: 102 min
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(siren)
Dr Han?
Dr Keith would like you to come to
the emergency ward as soon as you can.
(groaning)
- What's the trouble, John?
- This child was hit by a car and is in shock.
- Who is she?
- A refugee from China.
One of the 3,000 new ones.
They pour in every day.
- Has she a family?
- I don't know.
- She was alone at the time of the accident.
- Will you take over?
I've given her pantopon.
She may be injured internally.
Boy, move her to x-ray immediately.
You had better come along
with me, Officer, for the report.
Dr Han? I am Mei Loo. You remember?
Oh, Mei Loo, I hardly knew you.
Is this the little boy who was so ill?
But now it is my husband.
Make him well, Dr Han.
We have no money, but... we will sell the boy.
Our little one is intelligent and well-made.
We come from a good family.
We will do what we can, Mei Loo.
But don't you ever try to sell your little boy.
- You couldn't anyhow.
- I'll take care of him.
Anyway, Dr Sen's on his way down.
- I wish I were ten people.
- You need diversion.
- I wish I were ten people.
- You need diversion.
I'm going to a cocktail party this afternoon.
Why don't you come with me?
Dr Sen will take over here.
Why don't I? A sense of balance
might restore my sense of humour.
Why anyone would want to live anywhere
but Hong Kong I can't understand.
Where else could you get
ten servants for the price of one?
By next month, the ratio will be 12:1.
Shanghai's fallen, you know.
- The Reds will have all of China soon.
- We must all keep our heads here.
I hope you'll write something dreadful for
your paper about those ungrateful Chi...
Oh! John Keith.
Now my party is a success.
Adeline, this is Han Suyin,
my friend and colleague.
Han Suyin, I feel I've known you
a long, long time.
- You're a great artist, I understand.
- I'm a doctor.
Oh, well, doctors are artists in their way.
I knew I'd heard something wonderful about
you. John, you know everybody, don't you?
- Suyin, I hardly expected to find you here.
- Doctor's orders.
Adeline's husband is a hospital director.
You must let me speak to him, Dr Han.
There might be a place for you on the staff.
- Thank you, but I am already on the staff.
- Oh, how nice.
Well, then, we won't have to tell him, will we?
I want you to meet Father Lowe.
He just escaped from China, too.
But I havent just escaped from China.
I've been studying medicine in England.
I haven't been back to China for ten years.
- But you are Chinese.
- Eurasian.
My father was Chinese.
My mother was English.
I think of myself as Chinese, however.
I know exactly how you feel. The minute
I put on a Chinese frock, I feel Chinese.
If you have capital invested, you can double
your money in Hong Kong in three months...
If you have capital invested, you can double
your money in Hong Kong in three months...
Money, money, money. It's so sordid, dear.
I want you to meet Dr Han.
This mercenary man is my husband.
- Delighted, Doctor.
- And this is Father Lowe.
- And Mr Beager, Mr Wong and Mr...
- Bohannen, dear.
Oh, yes. And Mrs Wong, Madame Monet,
Mr Daney and Fiona Manton.
Father Lowe is fresh out of North China.
All the really nice people are getting out.
- I was thrown out.
- Rice converts, that's what they were.
- Rice converts.
- I loved them.
I knew them as I knew the back of my hand.
But they turned me out.
I'm sure I'll find China
much changed when I return.
- You're going back, Doctor?
- Don't tell us you're a Communist!
No, but I became a doctor to help my people.
Like all Chinese,
I'm spellbound by my own country.
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