The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)

Directed by

Mark Robson

Genre

drama film, war film, biographical film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

2h 28m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 85 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British woman travels to China to become a missionary during the Second Sino-Japanese War. She faces danger and hardship while helping local children and falling in love with a Chinese army officer.

inspiringdeterminedsomberadventuroushistoricalromanticwar-tornsacrificing

What happens

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 20th Century Fox film loosely based on the story of Gladys Aylward, a British woman who became a missionary in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Mark Robson, who received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as Aylward and Curt Jürgens as her love interest, Captain Lin Nan, a Chinese Army officer with a Dutch father. Robert Donat, who played the mandarin of the town in which Aylward lived, died before the film was released. The musical score was composed and conducted by Malcolm Arnold. The cinematography was by Freddie Young. The film was shot in Snowdonia, North Wales. Most of the children in the film were ethnic Chinese children from Liverpool, home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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