| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Alexander Golitzen Joseph C. Wright Howard Bristol |
| Best Cinematography, Color Russell Metty | |||
| Best Costume Design, Color Irene Sharaff | |||
| Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Alfred Newman Ken Darby | |||
| Best Sound Waldon O. Watson (Revue SSD) | |||
Directed by Henry Koster
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(HDNet Movies)
A young Chinese woman and her father, stow aways on a cargo ship, arrive in San Francisco to complete an arranged marriage. The groom turns out to be a middle aged nightclub owner who has no intentions of giving up his bachelorhood. He tries to pawn the girl off to a more appropriate man, the son in a respectable family. At first he is more interested in chasing other more desirable girls, such as nightclub dancer Nancy Kwan, but he eventually falls in love with the innocent, childlike Chinese girl. The plot is rather superficial, there are no real relationships here, and more than a few clunkers among the songs, but a couple of elaborate dream pieces towards the end have some interesting ideas. I liked the cowboy and Indian who step out of the television and into the scene, retaining their black-and-white hue in the Technicolor surroundings.
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