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Overview

User Rating:
7.0/10   997 votes
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Director:
Henry Koster
Writers:
C.Y. Lee (novel)
Joseph Fields (play) ...
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Release Date:
9 November 1961 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical | Romance more
Tagline:
Broadway's Most Romantic Musical Comedy comes to the Screen!!! more
Plot:
A Chinese woman and her father illegally enter San Francisco to marry her fiance. While in San Francisco... more | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations more
User Comments:
Forget the PC and enjoy the movie, musical numbers, actors and film titles. more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Nancy Kwan ... Linda Low
James Shigeta ... Wang Ta
Benson Fong ... Wang Chi-Yang
Jack Soo ... Samuel Adams 'Sammy' Fong
Juanita Hall ... Madame 'Auntie' Liang
Reiko Sato ... Helen Chao
Patrick Adiarte ... Wang San
Kam Tong ... Doctor Li
Victor Sen Yung ... Frankie Wing
Soo Yong ... Madame Ten Fong
Ching Wah Lee ... Professor

James Hong ... Headwaiter

Miyoshi Umeki ... Mei Li
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Additional Details

Runtime:
133 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Cantonese
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) | 3 Channel Stereo (Westrex Recording System)
Company:
Hunter-Fields more

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Trivia:
This was the only film version of a Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical not released by 20th Century-Fox. (The 70mm Todd-AO version of Oklahoma! (1955) had been released by RKO, but the 35mm Cinemascope version was released by 20th Century-Fox.) Flower Drum Song (1961) was produced and released by Universal-International. more
Goofs:
Continuity: At Wang Ta's graduation party, he and Mei-Ling ballroom dance as part of the Chop Suey number. But several scenes later, at the Celestial Gardens, he asks her to dance and she responds, "I don't know how, but I will walk around with you." more
Quotes:
Wang San: You have an unfortunate way of expressing yourself. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Sound of American Music (1985) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
You Are Beautiful more

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13 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
Forget the PC and enjoy the movie, musical numbers, actors and film titles., 14 March 2005
8/10
Author: kingcom from United States

The last time I saw Flower Drum Song on a big screen was at the Asian Pacific American Studies event at New York University, spurred on by David Henry Hwang's Broadway revival which received favorable reviews except for one paper. I was invited because my father created the film titles. Socialogical connotations at the event were discussed: cultural and generational conflicts, old and new set in the City on Golden Hill, the quest to achieve, etc. I have seen the original musical, the film many times, and the revival which deserved a longer run. Then the film began. I was impressed by Nancy Kwan's acting and others, memorable musical numbers and the opening and closing title paintings by my father, Dong Kingman. In many ways a beautiful film, and a case can be made, a pioneering one. Okay so it is a bit corny, a few young members of audience uneasily snickered at the stereotypes, scenes could have been cut, especially one fantasy sequence. Yet the Flower Drum Song endures and to enjoy. Rating is 7 1/2, plus half star more for dad.

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