The World of Suzie Wong
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Movie Reviews of The World of Suzie Wong
Movie Review: The World of Suzie Wong
Summary: 4 Stars
Excellent movie with Bill Holden. One type of movie that is not being produced anymore.Movie Review: The World of Suzie Wong
Summary: 4 Stars
The movie is okay but watching two hours of Nancy Kwan makes it worth it!Movie Review: "I Can't pay you much, but I'd like you to pose for me."
Summary: 3 Stars
The setting is Hong Kong in the late fifties...
The film tells the story of a bittersweet love affair between an American architect who has decided to try painting and a wonderful Asian girl who uses with vigor and diligence her essentially dirty trade in a turmoil of mischievous fantasy...
Suzie Wong (Nancy Kwan), attracted to Robert Lomax (Holden), offers to be his "steady girlfriend," but a world-weary Lomax informs her that he has had enough of love and wants only to paint...
Paint he does, and the irresistible hooker, appointed as a model, appears in his work in a variety of poses... A compassionate Lomax suddenly realizes he loves her and takes her as his mistress...
There are comic moments in Richard Quine's movie concerning the lies Suzie relates to win the respect of her prostitute friends and her drunken admirer, Ben (Michael Wilding).
Nancy Kwan in her film's debut displays a large range of feelings, alternating hardness, affection, and affinity...
Movie Review: The World of Suzie Wong
Summary: 3 Stars
The World of Suzie Wong is a masterpiece that many movies being made today could take a lesson from the acting in it is outstanding and Nancy Kwan as Suzie Wong is simlpy beautiful. She has the looks and comes across with an act of having a hard edge to her charcter but you can tell her character is very insecure and you find yourself wanting to reach out and help her. William Holden is Fantastic as a struggling painter who falls for Suzie also this movie is the best I've ever seen and I think alot of people who have not seen it before would love it too... check it out you won't be sorryMovie Review: One of the worst films of all time
Summary: 1 Stars
This film has some of the worst acting ever filmed by a major studio with a major star like William Holden. He is not the real problem, but
Nancy Kwan and the others, and the director, Richard Quine, who would go on to direct Paris When It Sizzles with Audrey Hepburn and Holden, are. (Paris When it Sizzles, with that cast..Audrey's first major flop, and it was witheld from release for years). But here in this film, even Holden cannot act his way through this mess, and the story is so childish at best, from a watered down play that had France Nuyen in the lead..what happened there?
Nancy Kwan in her love scenes, or when she finds out about her child, or when Holden finds out she is a prostitute...these scenes are excruciating. It is all unintentionally hilarious, but not enough to warrant purchase. And the ending..it all sort of stops, as if they had run out of film, which may be the truth. Avoid, and buy The Counterfeit Traitor wh. Holden made around this same period for Paramount.