The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

Mark Robson

Escritores:

Isobel Lennart (screenplay)
Alan Burgess (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

19 diciembre 1958 (Alemania Occidental)

Género:

Biografía | Drama

Frase comercial:

Love had suddenly come to her under the China sky...love for this Eurasian soldier who now pressed his earthy, Oriental skin against her own...

Plot:

All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary...

Plot Keywords:

China | Missionary | Mandarin | Foot Binding | Mediation

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Strange that so many people deny Gladys' romance with the Chinese officer....

Reparto

Ingrid Bergman	...	Gladys Aylward
Curd Jürgens	...	Capt. Lin Nan (as Curt Jurgens)
Robert Donat	...	The Mandarin of Yang Cheng
Michael David	...	Hok-A
Athene Seyler	...	Jeannie Lawson
Ronald Squire	...	Sir Francis Jamison
Moultrie Kelsall	...	Dr. Robinson
Richard Wattis	...	Mr. Murfin
Peter Chong	...	Yang
Tsai Chin	...	Sui-Lan
Edith Sharpe	...	Secretary at China Inland Mission
Joan Young	...	Sir Francis' cook
Lian-Shin Yang	...	Woman with baby
Noel Hood	...	Miss Thompson (as Noël Hood)
Burt Kwouk	...	Li

También conocida como:

El albergue de la sexta felicidad (Spain) [es]

Duración:

158 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Japonés | Mandarin | Ruso

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Australia:G | Canada:PG (video rating) | Finland:K-16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (video rating) | USA:Approved (PCA #19037) | West Germany:12 | UK:U

Locaciones de Filmación:

Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales, UK

Compañía:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

The song "The Children's Marching Song", more commonly known as "This Old Man", was better-known in England than the U.S. at the time this film was made. When the film became a hit in America, so did the song, helped in no small measure by Mitch Miller's popular recording.

Errores:

Errores en Geografía: The captain is talking with Gladys and says that someone will listen to anything for an extra bowl of rice. The story takes place in northern China and rice is only eaten in southern China. Noodles made from wheat was the mainstay of the Chinese diet in the north. Later in the film it appears Gladys takes a serving of rice from a large pot, and lastly on the journey with the children they come across some uncooked rice which Gladys picks it up.

Citas:

[first lines]
Gladys Aylward: My name is Gladys Aylward. I've written to the head of the missionary society. His reply stated that he'd see me if I ever came to London. If he's busy, I can wait.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

THE CHILDREN'S MARCHING SONG (THIS OLD MAN)

Strange that so many people deny Gladys' romance with the Chinese officer....

This is a wonderful movie which can be totally blown apart by those more interested in accuracy about Gladys Aylward's life than the spirit of her life. The strangest thing is that over and over one can read that Gladys was a chaste woman who never would have dreamed of having a romance with any man. The book on which the film is based, The Small Woman by Alan Burgess, is cited on the webpage for the movie, so there's no excuse for ignorance. Mr Burgess wrote at length of Gladys' romance with a colonel in the Chinese Nationlist Army. The man's name was Linnan, and aside from being portrayed by a German actor, the romance was as portrayed. Linnan was pure Chinese, he and Gladys loved each other very much, and they planned to be married. In the uncertainty of World War 2, Gladys decided against the marriage, and Linnan was lost in the war. She never saw him again and did not even know if he had survived the war, but she always remembered him as the one man she truly loved. I for one think her romance is in keeping with the rest of her life-she loved the Chinese people so much that she became a Chinese citizen, and when she fell in love it was with a Chinese man.