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A widowed Chinese-English doctor falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist Revolution.A widowed Chinese-English doctor falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist Revolution.A widowed Chinese-English doctor falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist Revolution.
- Won 3 Oscars
- 5 wins & 6 nominations total
Salvador Baguez
- Hotel Manager
- (uncredited)
W.T. Chang
- Old Loo
- (uncredited)
Aen-Ling Chow
- Wife
- (uncredited)
Kei Thin Chung
- Interne
- (uncredited)
Edward Colmans
- Dining Room Captain
- (uncredited)
Ashley Cowan
- British Sailor
- (uncredited)
Lee Tong Foo
- Old Loo
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Henry King
- Otto Lang(uncredited)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaJennifer Jones reportedly chewed garlic cloves before her love scenes with William Holden, which may have been an effort to deter her notoriously womanizing co-star. Considering how badly they were getting along, Holden suspected that it was Jones' attempt to annoy him.
- GoofsThe story takes place in 1949, but the aircraft that returns Mark to Hong Kong is Pan American World Airways N6535C, named "Clipper Mercury". It was a Douglas DC-6B, which entered service in 1952 and left service in 1961.
- Quotes
Third Uncle: We shall now have tea and speak of absurdities.
- ConnectionsFeatured in El buen amor (1963)
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A Many-splendored film
I purchased the DVD for this one, having seen the trailer for it on another DVD. I am fascinated by the film for several reasons and wonder whether it was really filmed in Hong Kong. The paradisiac scenery of the film, continuous anticyclonic weather, clear blue skies, the beautiful hill with the tree behind the hospital, a deserted beach etc etc all seem to have very little to to with the pictures we see of HK today - rain, mist and thousands of skyscrapers ... could it really be the same place, or was the film in reality shot elsewhere ? Perhaps HK internauts could confirm or deny ! Does that hill with its tree really exist.
In French the film is called " La Colline de l'Adieu " ( Goodbye hill )
Apart from this, I don't like the Cinemascope format, all the characters seem to small, so I have to use the zoom on my DVD to fill the screen ( losing picture detail in the process of course ).
Perhaps Mr William Holden liked the Orient, I'd already seen him in Suzie Wong and it was interesting to compare the two films. SW was more gutsy and crude than LIAMST.
I love the theme music of this film and have countless different recordings of it. I also loved both actors, both Holden and Jones were beautiful people. Repeated viewings of the DVD have brought me to like the film more and more, but I would have preferred just a little more passion in the love scenes. Also, JJ as a Chinese person leaves a little to be desired, beautiful though she is, she doesn't have the mannerisms of a Chinese person. It would be interesting to have an Oriental point of view on this one.
Should I add that the FINAL scene on the hill tightens the spectator's throat to a point of near suffocation !
In French the film is called " La Colline de l'Adieu " ( Goodbye hill )
Apart from this, I don't like the Cinemascope format, all the characters seem to small, so I have to use the zoom on my DVD to fill the screen ( losing picture detail in the process of course ).
Perhaps Mr William Holden liked the Orient, I'd already seen him in Suzie Wong and it was interesting to compare the two films. SW was more gutsy and crude than LIAMST.
I love the theme music of this film and have countless different recordings of it. I also loved both actors, both Holden and Jones were beautiful people. Repeated viewings of the DVD have brought me to like the film more and more, but I would have preferred just a little more passion in the love scenes. Also, JJ as a Chinese person leaves a little to be desired, beautiful though she is, she doesn't have the mannerisms of a Chinese person. It would be interesting to have an Oriental point of view on this one.
Should I add that the FINAL scene on the hill tightens the spectator's throat to a point of near suffocation !
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- nicholas.rhodes
- Apr 28, 2003
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Alle Herrlichkeit auf Erden
- Filming locations
- Foreign Correspondents' Club, 41A Conduit Road, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong(Dr. Han Suyin's hospital - building was demolished in 1970, now site of Realty Gardens apartment complex)
- Production company
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- Budget
- $1,780,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $29,341
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.55 : 1
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