Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
by Henry King
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Actor: Isobel Elsom, Jennifer Jones, Murray Matheson, Torin Thatcher, William HoldenDirector: Henry King
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
Editor: William Reynolds
Producer: Buddy Adler
Writer: Han Suyin
Writer: John Patrick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.55:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
Movie Review: Magic
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has been panned as melodramatic and not very deep when it comes to talk about Communist China. There are also complaints about Jennifer Jones not being good in the part. It's this last criticism that I find most strange. In the 50's no less, she portrays a beautiful and complex woman with an independent life she never even hints at giving up for love. It's perfect. The love story is romantic but not unrealistic--what I mean by that is the people had just fallen in love and people really do act like that during the first meeing of two souls. The music is wonderful, the architecture and costumes beautiful. It's just magic and well worth having. Ok, women are going to like it better than men. I also think the comments on communism have actually grown more relevant over time. They are not silly. I don't think the movie is dated, it portrays a love story with complexity yet maintains a simple enough story to make it easy to just concentrate on love of life.
Summary of Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
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.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
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