The lachrymose but chart-busting (and Oscar-winning) song is all that survives in most people's memories of this equally weepy love story, set against some picturesque views of Hong Kong, ravishingly shot in colour by the Oscar-winning photographer Leon Shamroy. Jennifer Jones' exquisite portrayal of the real-life Eurasian heroine, Han Suyin, though, does rise above the basic stickiness of the situations. And the background of troubled times in the Orient - the film is set just before and during the Korean War - is handled well enough to make one realise what an intriguing and complex subject it was at the time.

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