DESCRIPTION:
From the 1958 motion picture:
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.

Directed by Mark Robson,
Produced by Buddy Adler,
Written by Alan Burgess (book), Isobel Lennart.

Starring Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat,

Music by Malcolm Arnold

Cinematography Freddie Young

Editing by Ernest Walter

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Release date December 11, 1958

Running time 2 hours, 38 minuets

Country: United States

Language: English, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II. Directed by Mark Robson, who received an Academy Award for Directing nomination, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as Aylward and Curt Jurgens as her love interest, Colonel Lin Nan, a Chinese 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 by Malcolm Arnold. The cinematography was by Freddie Young.
The film was shot in Britain. Snowdonia in Wales was used for exterior locations. Most of the children in the film were Chinese children from Liverpool. The city has one of the oldest Chinese communities in Europe.