Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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.

animala I saw this movie again after not seeing it in about 10 years. Because I heard the DVD had come out I bought it and watched it again. The other comments made me want to write a comment for a couple reasons: Suzie Wong is not a culturally condescending movie, indeed for its time it must have been scandalous--showing real poverty, colonialism, racism and the sad world of people trapped in desperation. It is nothing like Pretty Woman and such a comparison belittles the accomplishment of this movie--two characters who are both on the verge of Not being able to fulfill themselves--but when together they can become their best selves. It is a good drama and a realistic love story with some tragedy but still happy and fitting consequences.A man in a trench coat ("Robert" played by William Holden) boards a ferry for Hong Kong, an excited tourist. He takes out a sketchpad and draws others on a ferry, notably a young Chinese woman ("Suzie Wong" played by Nancy Kwan), also in a trench coat. What immediately follows is a verbal spat that could have taken place between a couple, happily married for ten years. Always comfortable, yet unnerved from the beginning is the meeting of Suzie and Robert. She presents herself as a haughty "virgin" rich girl called Mei Ling, and he's a visiting artist, in Hong Kong for the first time.Later, Robert, who wants to get immersed in his surroundings gets lodging in a hotel in the Wan Chai district, a poor part of town where "Chinese" live. He later sees the girl from the ferry at the Hotel Bar, dressed very differently--in a seductive flaming red dress, hanging around the sailors as the other Wan Chai girls do. Her manner is different--cold and calculating, not a "virgin" at all. Robert realizes that he is in a bar of escorts, and the clientèle are largely the military men docked in Hong Kong.Suzie is fascinating to Robert, but he still sees her differently than his first meeting, though she is no less beautiful. He rebuffs her offer to be his "regular girlfriend". Suzie is annoyed at being rebuffed, and angrily shoots back "A month is a long time in Hong Kong, you'll get lonely...i wait". But rather than professional pride being injured maybe we see the first instance of Suzie seeing Robert as someone other than a customer, as she doesn't dismiss him--she reacts like a jealous woman and strides away to grab another man and kisses him.Robert isn't a tourist for "action" he wants to paint. He is an architect who was unhappy with his life and sets up a bank account for year to stay and see if he can make it as a painter. While he wants to immerse himself in culture, his immersion stops at his heart, and maybe even his body. Therein lies my issue with many of the other commenters. Robert doesn't "help" Suzie, she helps him. Robert is no different than Suzie in many ways. His soul was being killed by a job that didn't make him happy, and maybe by a woman that didn't make him happy. He is no savior to a woman trapped in prostitution--he's trapped too. And in essence his trap is harder to get out of, because he thinks he is "all there" simply because he is a respectable man, and honourable towards women. His trap is in his head. In the evening he stares at the building he's painted and it doesn't seem to thrill him much. He calls the downstairs desk and has the 'concierge' send up Suzie. SHe runs upstairs like an excited girl on her first date. She is angry when Robert tells her he doesn't want her for her body, but for her "bones" and he paints her. But she stays to save face.Then starts the pattern that repeats throughout the movie, is that Suzie needs to talk to him and find ways of continuing to talk to him, and order him around as if she is his affectionate wife-mother. And he listens but doesn't completely give in. The first night she models for a painting, she sings him a folk song and insists on telling him the story of a boy cloud and girl cloud, and how they finally get together when the boy cloud proves he has a good heart, an analogy for the entire movie.Trouble brews when Suzie feels threatened by a banker's daughter. when Robert mixes with the Hong Kong "society" folk he is surprised by their bigotry, but he continues to mix out of financial need to sell his paintings. Suzie feels jealous & desperate, maybe for both love and money, and agrees to be the "permanent girlfriend" of a wealthy usually drunk businessman played with hilarity by Michael Wilding (he is superb).After many misunderstandings and a tragedy, Suzie and a much changed Robert are able to have future together.This movie doesn't shy away from showing poverty--if anything it is discussed openly "you never have to do a dirty job like me" and "many hungry people in Hong Kong" and we find out that Suzie is illiterate in both English and Chinese. Also--some very frank racist discussion that is important to establish the supposed "two worlds". The Banker (father of Kay) acts as the Anglo conscience.The acting is great and natural. The scenes of Hong Kong and the score are gorgeous. I suppose I avoided seeing this movie again for a long time because it hits too close to home in some ways. No special stuff on the DVD but the print is great.It's a great under-watched and under-appreciated movie. It is also a perfect movie for those who haven't quite found their place in the world or in their hearts, looking for a peaceful resting place.

zhuge_daming "The World of Suzie Wong" is the inspiring tale of a Hong Kong prostitute and her American sugar daddy. As the movie that effectively introduced western audiences to the concept of a "China doll," this movie would be truly offensive if it weren't for the farcical "Chinese" accent of the lovely Ms. Nancy Kwan and the strange backdrop of fake Hong Kong streets. Filmed at the height of the cold war, the movie manages to convey plenty of ideological punch - it scores extra-bonus points for scaring the audience with a mention of the threat from "RED CHINA." To those familiar with Chinese culture, the movie has the flavor of an episode of Mr. Magoo that was shot deadpan. William Holden bumbles through exotic locales, encounters strange situations, and comes to ridiculous conclusions based only most tangentially on reality.

celia c A romance between an American artist and a Chinese prostitute, this show can't be truly appreciated by those unfamaliar with the Chinese cultures/way. Some find the behaviour of Suzie Wong in this show appalling in some scenes, the part where she seems proud that Robert hit her. In those day in the Chinese culture it is portrayed as a sign that the man cares about you, not so with American culture. I love the part where she gave her hard earned money to Robert because his paintings were not making money, his reaction proofed that he did love he, wanting to provide and not be provided for. I gave this show a 9/10 because the only fault i can find with it is the scene where she finds her son dead, i felt that she didn't act like a mother would when she found her son dead. Not enough emotion, William Holden did a fanstastic job as the artist. Charming yet dependable. Overall one of my favourites to date.