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Release Date: 1955

Cast: James Hong, Jennifer Jones, Richard Loo, Isobel Elsom, Philip Ahn, Torin Thatcher, Barbara Jean Wong, Soo Yong, William Holden, Herbert Heyes, Donna Martell, Keye Luke ...MORE

Cast: James Hong, Jennifer Jones, Richard Loo, Isobel Elsom, Philip Ahn, Torin Thatcher, Barbara Jean Wong, Soo Yong, William Holden, Herbert Heyes, Donna Martell, Keye Luke, Jorja Curtright, Leonard Strong, Murray Matheson, Virginia Gregg ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, Drama Film, War Film, Melodrama, Biography

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 American drama-romance film. Set in 1949-50 Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter (played by William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from China (played by Jennifer Jones), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society. The movie was adapted by John Patrick from the 1952 novel A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin. The film was directed by Henry King. The movie later inspired a television soap opera in 1967, though without the hyphen in the show's title. The... MORE

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 American drama-romance film. Set in 1949-50 Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter (played by William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from China (played by Jennifer Jones), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society. The movie was adapted by John Patrick from the 1952 novel A Many-Splendoured Thing by Han Suyin. The film was directed by Henry King. The movie later inspired a television soap opera in 1967, though without the hyphen in the show's title. The widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin (Jones) falls in love with the married-but-separated American correspondent Mark Elliott (Holden) in Hong Kong, during the period of China's Communist Revolution. While they find brief happiness, she is ostracized by her Chinese community. Elliott is killed by an attacking aircraft's bomb as the movie reaches its conclusion. Sujin returns at the end of the film to a scenic hillside where they had courted, comforted by late arriving letters. Nominated and winning multiple Academy Awards, Variety characterized it as "beautiful, absorbing." The film won Academy LESS