My motivation for watching this film was rather misguided, as looked up information on French Nuyen, to see what she had done, besides the Star Trek episode "Elann of Troyius" and mistakenly believed that she and William Shatner stared in this film. But as it turns out, they were both in the stage version of this film. Still, this film version featured Nancy Kwan, who gave a wonderful performance, and played a rambunctious character who I found impossible not to like (though it seemed like she would be a lot of trouble to have around).
The film appeared to have quite a few shots of actual Hong Kong, but not enough to give you a strong overall impression of the city. It also featured some Chinese cutural aspects, which hopefully cause the viewer to be a bit more culturally enlightened and broadminded.
The story is okay, but I was greatly impressed with the main characters moral integrity, and considering the time this film was made, it's impressive on the part of the writers as well. While all other other characters are looking down on the Chinese race, it seems only the main character doesn't falsely believe in his own races superiority.
Unfortunately, the ending of the story takes a big (though rather expected) twist and takes a kind of lighthearted story into bit of gloomy direction. I think this solultion may have be written in to resolve what could be a potential impediment to the main character's romance (similar to that faced in South Pacific).
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