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www.timeout.com - : East meets West for some lush tripe based on a novel by Han Suyin, who had company in disliking it. Set in a full deck of CinemaScope Hong Kong postcards as an American journalist and a Eurasian doctor lady wallow in an ill- fated romance conducted in pidgin poetry ('Sadness is so ungrateful'). With that title and an Oscar-winning theme song, what did you expect? more...
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goatdog.com - : In yet another big-budget, Cinemascope, Technicolor romance from 1955 (the other being Picnic), William Holden again confirms my belief that he was terrible as a romantic lead. He was 37 when he shot this film, starring opposite the 36-year-old Jennifer Jones, which was at least a more understandable casting choice than the 22-year-old Kim Novak chosen to play his love interest in Picnic, but it was still impossible to take him seriously as a romantic hunk. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : There are few melodramatic romances schmaltzier than ''Love is a Many-Splendored Thing.'' From the famously infamous theme song -- belted out shamelessly by an angelic chorus on the movie's soundtrack -- to the hokey Asian makeup on Jennifer Jones to the drippy ''separated by war'' romantic angle, the movie's rather daring attempt to break taboo with an interracial love story gets completely lost more...
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