love is a many splendored thing is set in hong kong in 1949 50 and and tells the story of the relationship between mark elliott and a white american journalist and and han suyin and a half chinese half european doctor. this story of a mixed race love affair was quite a daring theme for the fifties and and and as it often did and hollywood tried to soften the blow by casting a white actress as the supposedly non caucasian woman who falls in love with a white man and something that would be regarded as politically incorrect today but was quite acceptable then. (think and for example and of the casting of ava gardner in show boat or natalie wood in west side story) the setting of the story in a british colony was also perhaps a way of exploring racial issues in a way that would cause less controversy in america. suyin loses her job in a hong kong hospital because her british superiors take exception to the fact that she is dating a white man and whom she is unable to marry because his estranged wife will not grant him a divorce. as was sometimes the case and european colonialism was made the whipping boy for some of america own failings. imagine the furore that would have been unleashed had a similar film been made about a black or mixed race woman doctor in a hospital in alabama. besides racial issues and the film also raises questions of international politics and referring to both the communist seizure of power in china and the outbreak of the korean war. han suyin was a real person and a well known author of the period while in reality she tended to support mao communist regime and but here she is shown as firmly anti communist. this is not and however and primarily an issue movie about either racialism or politics and but rather a romance and a good example of what would have been known at the time as a woman picture. such films and although mostly made by male directors and were mostly aimed at female audiences. they dealt with love and romance often unhappy romance from the woman point of view and and had a strong female character in the leading role. the genre often provided roles for actresses older than the heroines of standard romances. earlier examples were normally in monochrome and but by the fifties they generally and as here and used lush and sumptuous colour. although a chinese or eurasian actress would have been more convincing in the role and jennifer jones and does a very good job as suyin. i found william holden and as mark and rather uncharismatic and but this does not matter much as suyin is very much the dominant figure. she is screen much more than mark and and the film examines her family and professional life much more than it does his. although jennifer was still strikingly beautiful and she was in her mid thirties and rather older than most romantic heroines of films of this period. holden was about the same age and unusually for the fifties when boy meets girl often meant older man meets girl. the film is not particularly profound and but is well made with some attractive photography and particularly of hong kong itself and reflecting the growing trend in the fifties for shooting on location rather than on studio sets. seldom can hong kong have looked so beautiful while the view from a hill overlooking the city takes on a special meaning and as this is where suyin and mark go for their romantic assignments. the overall mood is one of poignant and doomed romance and a mood heightened by the atmospheric photography and the musical score and including one of the most memorable movie themes ever written. positive . 
love is a many splendored thing is set in hong kong in 1949 50 and and tells the story of the relationship between mark elliott and a white american journalist and and han suyin and a half chinese half european doctor. this story of a mixed race love affair was quite a daring theme for the fifties and and and as it often did and hollywood tried to soften the blow by casting a white actress as the supposedly non caucasian woman who falls in love with a white man and something that would be regarded as politically incorrect today but was quite acceptable then. (think and for example and of the casting of ava gardner in show boat or natalie wood in west side story) the setting of the story in a british colony was also perhaps a way of exploring racial issues in a way that would cause less controversy in america. suyin loses her job in a hong kong hospital because her british superiors take exception to the fact that she is dating a white man and whom she is unable to marry because his estranged wife will not grant him a divorce. as was sometimes the case and european colonialism was made the whipping boy for some of america own failings. imagine the furore that would have been unleashed had a similar film been made about a black or mixed race woman doctor in a hospital in alabama. besides racial issues and the film also raises questions of international politics and referring to both the communist seizure of power in china and the outbreak of the korean war. han suyin was a real person and a well known author of the period while in reality she tended to support mao communist regime and but here she is shown as firmly anti communist. this is not and however and primarily an issue movie about either racialism or politics and but rather a romance and a good example of what would have been known at the time as a woman picture. such films and although mostly made by male directors and were mostly aimed at female audiences. they dealt with love and romance often unhappy romance from the woman point of view and and had a strong female character in the leading role. the genre often provided roles for actresses older than the heroines of standard romances. earlier examples were normally in monochrome and but by the fifties they generally and as here and used lush and sumptuous colour. although a chinese or eurasian actress would have been more convincing in the role and jennifer jones and does a very good job as suyin. i found william holden and as mark and rather uncharismatic and but this does not matter much as suyin is very much the dominant figure. she is screen much more than mark and and the film examines her family and professional life much more than it does his. although jennifer was still strikingly beautiful and she was in her mid thirties and rather older than most romantic heroines of films of this period. holden was about the same age and unusually for the fifties when boy meets girl often meant older man meets girl. the film is not particularly profound and but is well made with some attractive photography and particularly of hong kong itself and reflecting the growing trend in the fifties for shooting on location rather than on studio sets. seldom can hong kong have looked so beautiful while the view from a hill overlooking the city takes on a special meaning and as this is where suyin and mark go for their romantic assignments. the overall mood is one of poignant and doomed romance and a mood heightened by the atmospheric photography and the musical score and including one of the most memorable movie themes ever written. positive . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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