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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301720533
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6301720539
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: July 26, 1990
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 13069
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: May 27, 1955
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of my all time favorites
This is one of the most beautiful movies I've seen in terms of cinematography. Hong Kong was colorful and facinating, a world that doesn't exist 60 years later. I would gladly trade my old VHS for a fresh remastered DVD. The plot has been covered several times so I'd just like to mention a few individual scenes that stand out. Susan and Clark standing on the balcony with the wind whipping at them watching the typhoon blow in across the harbor. The old bartender and aging harlot marrying in the bar ... Read More
Rating:  - Tired melodrama
Jane Hoyt (Susan Hayward), a self-sacrificing, loyal wife, enlists the aid of Hank Lee (Clark Gable), a roguish gambler with a heart of gold, to find and rescue her missing husband from Communist China. Filled with stock characters (ie, the policeman who secretly admires the dashing criminal and helps him in the end, the comical drunken sailors who hate "dames") and stock situations (passions flare during a big storm). There is some nice photography, but it couldn't hold my interest.
Rating: - Why no DVD?
Terrific score and Hong Hong scenery for this action film. All the dreck's on DVD, why not this excellent movie?
Rating: - YOU ARE IN GOOD HAND'S, WITH THE KING.
THIS MOVIE'S PHOTOGRAPHY (HONG KONG, THE HARBOR, THE OCEAN, AND CLOSE UPS)WAS CUTTING EDGE IN 1955, AND IS STILL BREATHTAKING TODAY (WITH A GOOD VHS/TV). CLARK GABLE GIVES A GREAT PERFORMANCE AS A MAN'S MAN, READY TO HELP THE GREAT LOOKING (SUSAN HAYWARD), A STRONG LADY, SLOWLY WEAKENING TO "THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE", BUT STILL HOLDING TRUE TO HER MISSING/PRISONER (GENE BARRY)HUSBAND. MICHAEL RENNIE PLAYS THE GOOD COP, WITH A SENSE OF ADVENTURE, AND THE REST OF THE CAST ARE EVIL, HUMOROUS, LOYAL, AND ... Read More
Rating:  - Hong Kong in 1955
This movie has beautiful scenery! It's worth seeing for that alone.
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