The price they pay when they come out of their secret garden and face the world in modern-day Hong Kong - makes this one of the screen's unforgettable experiences!
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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Cast
- Jennifer JonesDr. Han Suyin
- William HoldenMark Elliott
- Torin ThatcherHumphrey Palmer-Jones
- Isobel ElsomAdeline Palmer-Jones
- Murray MathesonDr. John Keith
- Virginia GreggAnne Richards
- Richard LooRobert Hung
- Soo YongNora Hung
- Philip AhnThird Uncle
- Jorja CurtrightSuzanne
Crew
- Henry KingDirector
- John PatrickScreenplay
- Han SuyinNovel
- Leon ShamroyDirector of Photography
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- William ReynoldsEditor
- Buddy AdlerProducer
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