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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.
Sep 26, 1955 Wide
Mar 7, 2000
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The film is the quintessence of a certain kind of 50s schlock.
It's an unusual picture shot against authentic Hong Kong backgrounds and offbeat in its treatment, yet as simple and moving a love story as has come along in many a moon.
With an impotent screen play, it is no wonder that Mr. Holden and Miss Jones find themselves going around in narrowing circles, talking endlessly and holding hands.
Slushy but touching stuff and Jennifer Jones is full of charm.
This is basically a sappy story that does not hold up and that is so obviously designed to jerk tears that it seems more self-parody than love story.
It scratches at some surface truths.
Well acted by William Holden and Jennifer Jones, this interracial romance is a schmaltzy but enjoyable melodrama, and one of the 1950s blockbusters.
East meets West for some lush tripe based on a novel by Han Suyin, who had company in disliking it.
William Holden again confirms my belief that he was terrible as a romantic lead.
Love really is a many splendored thing, but you wouldn't know it by seeing this movie. Jones plays a woman doctor who's part Chinese and falls in love with an American guy, but she keep stressing over the fact that she's part Chinese as if that should keep them apart somehow, I mean no one can tell she's part Chinese
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
"love is a many-splendored thing" is adapted from "shuyin" which is an autobiography of some eurasian doctor's interracial romance with an american correspondent stationed in hong kong to cover up the story of korean war. and the casting of jennifer jones as the conflicted eurasian beauty is suspiciously accorded by
December 10, 2007Super Reviewer
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