Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Jim Colyer I remember The World Of Suzie Wong but had never seen it. I dug it up because I am planning a 2016 trip to Hong Kong, and that is where this story takes place. I was 14 in 1960, and this movie would have been over my head. William Holden is an American architect who wants to become a painter. He goes to Hong Kong to pursue his dream and gets in with Nancy Kwan as Suzie Wong. She is a prostitute, although we have to read between the lines. I was more interested in the city than I was in the drama that ensued between Holden and Kwan. It comes out toward the end that Suzie has a baby, which ultimately dies in a flood. I felt like the story had to kill off her baby so Holden and Suzie would be free to marry and have one of their own. It was good to see an older man get the girl.

dbrando The World of Suzie Wong is a tragic insight into colonization from the west in any form. The film does not capture this, but wants us to feel relaxed about Asians who talk cool, and dress in the same manner.With this established the union of Suzie and Holden is racially OK. ( See Sayonara with Brando and see how that film shocks the senisbilities of viewers even today.As it should.) William Holden is alright here but he is a great talent and he cannot get over the terrible direction and the watered-down play as screenplay. There's no characterization and he moves on to better things in his career, Paris When It Sizzles, is not one of his good moves, with the same bad director of Suzie Wong. Wong ans Paris are perhaps the nadir for Holden, but he does make it to Network.Nancy Kwan is light years behind France Nuyen who essayed the part on Broadway. Ms. Kwan has no acting skills that would even begin to unfurl this complicated character for us.The film could be remade..it should be, with the uncut play as a basis for it.

Amy Adler Robert (William Holden) was a success in the business world but found it unfulfilling. Thus, he made what could be called a major life change! Moving to Hong Kong so he can devote himself to his real goal, making it as an oil painter, he can only afford to rent digs in a cheap hotel. All too soon he discovers that the native call girls of the city meet their American or European beaux in the same place! One absolutely lovely gal is Suzie Wong (Nancy Kwan) who catches Robert's eye and visa versa. But, since Robert is comparatively poor at the moment and Suzie must make ends meet for herself and her family, the situation becomes rather sticky. A romance between the two is out, so a friendship develops. However, the more time they spend with one another, the more their hearts become entwined. Soon, Robert doesn't want Suzie to see any other men but him yet, if she doesn't, she will fall on hard times. Even then, when Robert does take Suzie out to a restaurant, the native wait staff and other "high society" Caucasians make fun of the two together, for they know what her profession is. Will love still triumph? The powers that be in sixties television must have gotten this film cheaply, for it was on quite a bit of the time. As such, my sisters and I really adored the movie, having seen Kwan in Flower Drum Song and admiring her beauty. Because the call girl angle is truly subtle, it took awhile for us to really understand the big picture. We saw it more as a romance between two people from different worlds, which it also is. As the two principals, Holden and Kwan make for a great couple while the scenery, costumes, and photography from Hong Kong are also a treat. Meanwhile, the script displays a touching tale of socially forbidden love while the direction sensitively deals with a rather difficult subject. Therefore, if you see the late, late show is featuring this flick, don't miss out. Even 50 years later, it is still a romantic and entertaining view.

qatmom I did not see this movie when it was released in the 1960s. Seeing it now, for the first time in 2006, makes clear that it has aged poorly. Some people may have fond memories of it as exotic and romantic, but my impression is that it is racist and sexist. Incredibly racist and incredibly sexist.Did anyone do any kind of research for this movie? What is the nonsense with the inability to pronounce 'r's'? (Chinese speakers have no problem in pronouncing r's~~ as in Run Run Shaw and Runwe Shaw, for starters...) For a moment I will imagine the racist and sexist issues do not exist (Interestingly enough, Shaw Brothers made a movie a few years later entitled, "My Name Ain't Suzie".)~~William Holden looks too old for this role. Much too old. He seems to have no past; what has he been doing since he became an adult, anyway? Nancy Kwan's Suzie may have larger problems than speaking broken English--she may be stupid as well. Even after her English improves, it is hard to imagine this couple as a couple dealing with the Ordinary Problems of Life. When the pipes freeze, will Suzie pout, then storm out the door for a day or so?What do they talk about? Lobert is supposedly an architect but Suzie's illiterate and more than slightly childish. When Lobert brings her home to meet the folks, her kinda-sort Chineseness may be a problem for a few of the oldest relatives, but I suspect her illiteracy and dim-wittedness will drive Clan Lobert completely crazy.