The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | |
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Directed by | Mark Robson |
Screenplay by | Isobel Lennart |
Based on | The Small Woman 1957 biography by Alan Burgess |
Produced by | Buddy Adler |
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Cinematography | Freddie Young |
Edited by | Ernest Walter |
Music by | Malcolm Arnold |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 158 minutes |
Countries | United States United Kingdom |
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Budget | $3,570,000[1] |
Box office | $9 million (worldwide)[2] |
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 20th Century Fox film loosely based on the story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British woman who became a missionary in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Mark Robson, who received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as Aylward and Curt Jürgens as her love interest, Captain Lin Nan, a Chinese Army officer with a Dutch father. Robert Donat, who played the mandarin of the town in which Aylward lived, died before the film was released. The musical score was composed and conducted by Malcolm Arnold. The cinematography was by Freddie Young.
The film was shot in Snowdonia, North Wales.[3] Most of the children in the film were ethnic Chinese children from Liverpool, home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe.[4][5]