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Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543060970
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 06, 2003
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 6740
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1955
Editorial Review:
Description:
Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent temporarily staying in Hong Kong during the Korean War. While there he meets and pursues a beautiful Eurasian Doctor. But when they begin to fall in love, their friends and families pressure them to stop the cross cultural relationship.
Amazon.com essential video:
This love story made in 1955 and set against the backdrop of war is a many-splendored thing: it features a drop-dead gorgeous Eurasian doctor seeking meaning in her life (Jennifer Jones), a dashing but married American war correspondent who's macho yet not afraid to declare his love (William Holden), and a couple of murky subplots to give their relationship its oh-what's-going-to-happen-next edge (her Chinese heritage, his wife, the outbreak of the Korean War). One scene builds beautifully upon the next, accompanied by dialogue that often sounds like poetry: 'I will make no mistakes in the name of loneliness,' the doctor says near the beginning of their relationship. The movie also makes few mistakes as it combines thoughtful words with Oscar-winning costumes to tell its tale. It even leaves you with a hummable tune--the Academy Award-winning title song--as you reach for the Kleenex. --Valerie J. Nelson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Surprizingly Well Kept For It's Time!
I remember watching this film with my mom on a weekday afternoon as a kid and wondering why she was crying at the end. It seemed boring as a kid watching it. But as my taste for movies advanced, so did the understading of this film. I took a chance on this film again and was pretty touched by it. It's a carefully patterned film with one of my favorite actors. William Holden is a true romantic leading man. He would get another shot on a similar project, "The World of Susie Wong." The casting ... Read More
Rating: - Love is A Many Splendered Thung
This a an unusually good movie. Jennifer Jones and William Holden are excellent. Also the direction and plot. About love and tragedy.
Rating:  - I should have known from the corny title...
I can't believe the number of 5 star reviews for this corny, bad dialogue and blatantly racist film. Heck, I've never even heard of the term EuAsian before and it had to be mentioned in this script at least 200 times. I cared nothing for these people as a couple and found this whole thing an insult to anyone's intelligence.
Rating:  - Hong Kong Dewy
Jennifer Jones may not have been the greatest actress of Hollywood's Golden Age, but she was absolutely solid, and could even be quite excellent when given a chance to show her comic side in fare off the beaten track like CLUNY BROWN or BEAT THE DEVIL. She spent most of her time in soapers like this one, however, where she did not necessarily redeem the material but at least always brought a likability and dignity to her work that often made her seem better than her films deserved. In this famous weeper ... Read More
Rating:  - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
At age 71 - I have looked back over my lifetime and have memories of movies that really touched me. This was one of those - - so I have purchased this memory and have enjoyed it once again. I am glad I bought it - because I can now watch it over and over - which I will do. At this age I now realize that there are things that give meaning to your life, and how you live it, and so I am now going back and trying to recapture those small tokens to keep and cherish. This is not much of a review as a return ... Read More
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