Ferry to Hong Kong

Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)

Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It's all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter's life and becoming a man again.

Дата выхода
1959-10-29
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (15)
Длительность
1 ч 52 мин
Жанры
приключения, драма, боевик
Режиссёр
Lewis Gilbert

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  • Места съёмок: Pinewood Studios

Ferry to Hong Kong is a 1959 British melodrama/adventure film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Curt Jürgens, Sylvia Syms, Orson Welles and Jeremy Spenser. It was written by Gilbert and Vernon Harris.

Production

The film was based on a 1957 novel by Simon Kent. Director Lewis Gilbert says the film rights to the novel were originally owned by Sydney Box who offered the project to Gilbert; the director agreed provided he had complete creative control.

John Mortimer worked on the script. The film was among a number of movies made by Rank in the late 1950s aimed at the international market, involving colour and location filming. Rank had rationalised its film production arm, decreasing overall output but putting more money in a certain number of films.

The story went round Pinewood that Davis looked over the biggest successes of the past five years and deduced that they had an exotic title, an American leading man and a continental director ... he decided these were the elements which make a successful film and he came up with The Ferry to Hong Kong ... it was a dire flop!

In August 1958 Rank announced it was going to make Ferry to Hong Kong starring Peter Finch. The following month it was reported the film would star Finch and Burl Ives. According to Gilbert, the stars were going to be Finch (as the tramp), German actor Curt Jurgens (the sea captain) and Sylvia Syms (the school teacher).

Gilbert claims Finch then had "some sort of row" with John Davis who took the actor off the film. According to Gilbert, Davis saw Orson Welles in The Long Hot Summer, "fell in love with him" and insisted Welles star in the movie. Since Gilbert had already signed Jurgens to star in the film, Davis suggested he play the tramp and Welles the sea captain. In September 1958 Variety reported the casting as a swap between Finch and Jurgens, stating:

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