The World Of Suzie Wong - 1960 - 6/10
American executive, suffering, I suppose, a mid-life crisis, heads to Hong Kong to become a painter.
On limited means, he cannot afford respectable neighborhoods, so he rooms in a cheap hotel.
Only to realize it is actually a brothel – where he falls in love with the most popular girl working there.
The photography shines throughout, exotic and colorful.
William Holden is too old in some ways, other times he is just right. (It hurt that I read the bestselling novel and knew his character was much younger.
Nancy Kwan is spectacular in what should have been a career making role.
This was momentous viewing for a younger me, heightened after reading the novel.
I vowed to move to California, attend college there, then emigrate to Hong Kong.
My childhood plans proved difficult, though eventually doable.
Hong Kong, however, took me decades.