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Can You Name This Film You can remember the plot briefly but can't recollect the films name?


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Old 08-08-2007, 09:04 PM
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i saw this film only once but it keeps driving me crazy as i cant remember the title or the whole plot. I remember a woman possibly ingrid bergman taking a lot of children over a mountain, and they are singing this old man..... any help out there to put me out of my misery.

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i have just found it the Inn of sixth happiness...
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i have just found it the Inn of sixth happiness...
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That wouldn't be "Inn of the sixth happiness" would it?

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
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oops, that must have been a crossed post!
1 minute between.
What are the chances...
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so it was thanks for your help, i am going out tommorrow to buy the darn thing as it drove me so crazy.. cheers for ur help
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The irony being it was on TV earlier this week...

I've just sat down and watched this right through for the very first time. I must say that despite some rather incongruous casting, I did rather enjoy it.

Is it just me or did Curt Jurgens, in his Chinese Dutchman makeup, look incredibly like stuntman Bob (007) Simmons...?

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Gladys Aylward, the missionary whom Ingrid Bergman played in this film, visited my wife's school in the nineteen fifties. She remembers her as being a woman of diminutive stature but remarkable presence.
Malcolm Arnold's score for this film based on a traditional melody rode high in the British hit parade at the time. ("Nick Nack Paddy Wack", etc.)
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Nick Nack Paddy Wack high in the charts???
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i have just found it the Inn of sixth happiness...
Yes, Inn of the Sixth Happiness, very good film and amazingly mainly filmed in Wales in the UK and some scenes in London and not on location in the Himalayas at all! The original plan was to film on location in Taiwan China but derogatory references to the practice of foot binding upset the Chinese authorities so permission was revoked so Snowdonia stands in for the Himalayas and a set of the walled city that features in the film was also built in Wales.
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Nick Nack Paddy Wack high in the charts???
Yes thats right, but not as high in the charts as Anthony Newley's "Pop goes the Weasel".....
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I don't know where the London scenes were filmed but I can remember as a schoolboy seeing dozens of extras dressed in chinese clothes waiting outside Burnt Oak underground station (Northern Line) waiting for their transport. This went on for about a fortnight if my memory serves me correctly.
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