Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Director: Henry King
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
East meets West for some lush tripe based on a novel by Han Suyin, who had company in disliking it. Set in a full deck of CinemaScope Hong Kong postcards as an American journalist and a Eurasian doctor lady wallow in an ill- fated romance conducted in pidgin poetry ('Sadness is so ungrateful'). With that title and an Oscar-winning theme song, what did you expect?Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Henry King
Producer: Buddy Adler
Cast: Jennifer Jones, William Holden, Isobel Elsom, Torin Thatcher, Murray Matheson, Jorja Curtright, Virginia Gregg full cast
Duration: 102 mins
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