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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!

Rating 6.1 / 10Release August 18, 1955Runtime 102 min

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.

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