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Inn Of The Sixth Happiness [1958] | ![Inn Of The Sixth Happiness [1958]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SZ889ZPYL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Mark Robson
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens, Robert Donat
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 2154
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 152 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5039036020794
ASIN: B0007SME40
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
Release Date: April 18, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
An epic and extraordinary true story--or, at least, an extraordinary story based on a novel (Alan Burgess's The Small Woman) based on a true story. Gladys Aylward (an improbably mesmerizing Ingrid Bergman) is a British would-be missionary with an obsession about China. As she has no experience, the Missionary Society won't let her go, but she goes anyway, alone, to a remote northern province. She is hated, then loved; finally she becomes both a significant political figure and the heroine of a miraculous escape in which she shepherds 100 children to safety across the mountains just ahead of a Japanese invasion. Curt Jurgens is suitably stony as Lin Nan, the half-Dutch, half-Chinese military officer who falls in love with her, and a visibly ailing Robert Donat (who died before this, his final film, was released) is the wily local mandarin who sees and makes use of her extraordinary abilities. Directed by Mark Robson, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a sweeping, stirring tearjerker, a big tale told in a big landscape with acres of orchestrated strings by Malcolm Arnold. A beautiful and beautifully made film that's a classic of the "everyone said I couldn't but I did it anyway" genre. --Richard Farr
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Triumph Against the odds August 17, 2007
David R. Bishop (Plymouth, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A beautiful film, based on the story of a most remarkable woman.
Ingrid Bergman gives the performance of her life in my opinion, and Robert Donat and Curt Jurgens provide wonderful support. The latter provides a romantic interest. I accept that this interest was largely fabricated to make the film more appealing at the box office, but it seems all quite tasteful and unrequited to me. The Chinese cast are good too, especially the children.
The photography is stunning, using dark, rich colours. Some of those '50s colour movies have often looked dull and out of place on TV, but now on a large screen in a fairly dark room, you begin to get the effect of cinema. You can almost see the full pleated curtains of The Gaumont and The Odeon, as they softened their Art-Deco lines, and let in a bit of 50s Chintz.
I am glad to read that I am not the only person still deeply moved by the final scenes of this movie from an age of more innocence and hope.
Very Enjoyable June 14, 2007
Simono (Leicester, England)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ingrid Bergman is inspirational as missionary, Gladys Aylward in this famous story.
A fine film well acted and directed. The children's trek through the mountains and their singing of "This old man" is very touching.
The previous reveiwer must be very proud of their great aunt!
Review from the Great Niece of Gladys Aylward August 31, 2006
L. Dennant (UK)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I think this film is a wonderful way of telling my Great Aunt's story. Though she was not too happy about her portrayal in certain love scenes, I think she was generally quite pleased with the overall result. As a member of her family, I hope many people will enjoy this touching story of the most heroic member of my family.
What is a heroine ? March 24, 2006
Mr. Ian George Fraser (Brazil)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Few people will need to read a review of this rightly famous film. I should think that if you mentioned the names Ingrid Bergman and China to the average filmgoer ( over a certain age now admittedly) they would roughly be able to tell you the plot of it. Bergman achieves in this film that most difficult acting feat, to make her character at the same time both ordinary and heroic. The scene in which the children emerge over the mountain singing "This Old Man" cannot be viewed by anybody even today dry-eyed. An absolutely inspirational film and beyond criticism.
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