Ferry to Hong Kong
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ferry to Hong Kong |
| Original title | Ferry to Hong Kong |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lewis Gilbert |
| script |
Lewis Gilbert , Vernon Harris , John Mortimer |
| production | George Maynard |
| music |
Kenneth V. Jones , Paddy Roberts , Robert Sharples |
| camera | Otto Heller |
| cut | Peter R. Hunt |
| occupation | |
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Ferry to Hong Kong (Original title: Ferry to Hong Kong ) is a British film directed by Lewis Gilbert from 1959.
action
The German Mark Conrad hangs around a bar in Hong Kong and gets involved in a fight. He is then expelled and has to take a ferry to Macau . The captain, Captain Hart, is reluctant to take him in, as Conrad's outward appearance is not what he wanted. Although Hart banishes him below deck, Conrad spontaneously befriends a group of Chinese children and the machinist Joe Skinner. In Macau, despite a valid visa, he was refused entry and had to drive back to Hong Kong. Since he is no longer allowed to go ashore there, he is condemned to commute on the ferry for an indefinite period of time. The captain is angry and asks Conrad to play a decisive card game. Conrad wins because Hart tried to cheat, so he's allowed to stay on deck.
Conrad gets to know the supervisor of the children's group, Liz, better and invites her to a meager dinner. One evening they illegally leave the ship in Hong Kong and pound through the bars. When Hart tracks them down, Conrad can barely escape to the ship, where he is safe from British law. Back at sea, warnings come in that a typhoon is about to occur. But before that, the crew discovered a burning junk . Captain Hart initially refuses to take in the castaways, but he is finally persuaded by a pastor. After the shipwrecked were rescued, it was revealed that the junk had loaded black powder. It is too late to flee, the ferry is badly hit by the detonation. The ship can also no longer escape the emerging typhoon. In a seemingly hopeless situation, Conrad takes the helm and navigates the ship out of the danger zone. Liz is taken with his act and the two kiss each other.
Next, pirates board the ship, tie up the captain and want to extort ransom for the children. But Conrad and the other men put them to flight just before the already damaged ship sinks.
Reviews
Howard Thompson was disappointed in the New York Times on April 27, 1961 and particularly emphasized Orson Welles negatively: “ We only recommend the ferry to Hong Kong to the morbidly curious who want to see Orson Welles in his worst role, ever . ”Curd Jürgens plays an“ ungrateful role ”and the film cannot capture the exotic atmosphere of Hong Kong. With a gap of a few decades, the lexicon of the international film judged more friendly, but not enthusiastically: “An average adventure story, made for Curd Jürgens. (...) In between, colorful port and landscape images. "
Web links
- Ferry to Hong Kong in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Review in the New York Times
- ↑ Ferry to Hong Kong at two thousand and one