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Epicurus.com - the Inn of the Sixth Happiness
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List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $11.75
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Michael David, Athene Seyler
Directed By: Mark Robson
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303037387
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6303037380
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: 1994-04-06
Running Time: 108
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Sunshine
Comment: The movie is interesting to me because of talking about christian background. That is the woman believes in God to help chinese children to live as well. She thinks that God wants her to do this. It is a great film.
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Summary: The BEST movie and my favorite.
Comment: Geneva's Branch: Book Two of Geneva's Series I don't remember when I first watched this program, but I fell in love with the story. It is based on some facts about the heroine, but not completely. Hollywood changed it into a part love story. This time I'm on the side of Hollywood. The drama is touching to the soul and the heart. Whenever I feel like a good cry, and I do need them once and a while, I put in this movie.
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Summary: Settle In to 6th Happiness
Comment: Loved the movie. I checked out the life of Gladys Alward... the movie stayed pretty close to her life. The Chinese characters are a little contrived, but the history and setting were fairly accurate. Movie was a little long to today's standards, but thoroughly enjoyable.
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Summary: Hard life in China
Comment: This book is about saving children from the ravages of a hard life in China. It demonstrates the persistence of one women and the children's trust in her. This missionary, played by Ingrid Bergman, faced many hardships yet she kept her goal in mind - helping orphaned Chinese children.
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Summary: The real New Testament faith in action.
Comment: If you decide to watch this, keep a hanky handy. Though the movie has been Hollywood-ed somewhat from the original story, it is still pretty true, and very inspiring to say the least, even humbling. How many of us come close to Gladys Aylward's love and faith in action? Ingrid Bergman was fantastic every minute. (I heard that she later commented she did not feel worthy to play the part.) The children are adorable and there is never a dull minute. The only reason I didn't give four stars is because I really wish they had left in one true event - but again, for Hollywood it was wonderful overall. The event they left out is where Gladys and her 100 orphans were making their dangerous trek over the mountain and encountered an impassable river. The movie shows them solving their dilemmna with a rope strung from one side of the river to the other, for the children to cling to. What actually happened is that some of the children reminded the missionary that nothing was impossible with our Heavenly Father. So they prayed for a way to get across the river. And like Paul and Silas in chains, they sang to Him. A Chinese boat captain heard them singing and came to investigate, then got them across on his boat.
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