Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

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!

NR 1955 · 102 min · ★ 6.1 · Drama, Romance

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.

Directed by Henry King · Written by John Patrick

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