Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955 · 102 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 5,547 VOTES · DIR. Henry King
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,064 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:03:09 Dr Han?
00:06:22 My father was Chinese. My mother was English.
00:08:55 No Chinese girl would dare dine alone with an American she had just met.
00:13:52 Oh, I don't think so.
00:17:36 Uh... I think not.
00:21:06 I must do something for you. What would you like?
00:24:05 I'm afraid my heart is safely dead.
00:26:50 Did you know that I was bitten by a centipede?
00:30:56 Mark, like everyone else in Hong Kong, you're at loose ends.
00:34:29 I think that the relationship between the East and the West should be closer.
00:39:06 and a path leading up from the road.
00:44:10 I called. They said you were in surgery, so rather than wait, I came on over.
00:46:56 believe that being in love makes them beautiful and justifies everything.
00:51:43 I didn't think you'd come.
00:56:11 The new tapestry will be tightly woven, Mr Elliott.
00:59:47 And idiotic of you, too. After all, you're quite happy as you are.
01:04:55 Could you come over this morning?
01:10:15 They make it seem so festive.
01:14:08 Oh, too many. Look again.
01:17:58 Well, that isn't too important. But I should have been here.
01:21:28 Oh, the same sort of things I wrote about in Africa, Indonesia.
01:25:01 Where's your pride, Suyin?
01:27:54 but I was able to place it so it faced the open window
01:33:18 But his letters will come... one by one.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,064
Dialogue density10.4 lines / min
First line00:03:09
Final line01:33:18
Production Record
DirectorHenry King
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes5,547