A Countess from Hong Kong 1967 123movies

Watch: A Countess from Hong Kong 1967 123movies, Full Movie Online – In Hong Kong, the wealthy Ogden Mears is traveling in a transatlantic, close to being assigned Saudi Arabian ambassador, and divorcing his wife Martha. He and his friend Harvey are invited by their old friend Clark to go to a nightclub with three aristocratic Russians on their last night. Ogden drinks too much and spends the night with Countess Natascha. The next morning, while sailing back home, Ogden finds Natascha hidden in his cabin wearing a ball gown and with no documents. The stowaway explains that she wants to go to the United States and Ogden is worried about his career. But Harvey convinces him to help Natascha. Ogden falls in love with Natascha, and he and Harvey plot a fake marriage between Natascha and his valet Hudson. Things get complicated when Immigration requests Natascha’s documents and Martha arrives on board..
Plot: A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
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Ratings:

	6.0/10 Votes: 6,429
	43% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 132 Popularity: 10.866 | TMDB

Reviews:

not as bad as critics made out
an interesting curio as Chaplin’s last film. Loren is ravishingly beautiful and carries the whole film well on her shoulders. Brando badly miscast, he shows some great timing in the madcap farce rushing around scenes, but try to imagine how Rex Harrison could have done this type of slamming doors and hiding farce as the uptight diplomat exasperated with his stowaway – think My Fair Lady. Brando’s mumbling performance just does not gel. Apparently he had disagreements with Chaplin and maybe was sulking.

Very nice cameos from Margaret Rutherford (British films of the 50s Miss Marple) and Angelar Scoular (batty girl like in her performance in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), also great comedy performance from Patrick Cargill (British TV comedy and a memorable No 2 in the Prisoner) as the butler. Excellent acting going on here.

It is dull to start with, static camera like silent films, stagy, and obvious studio sets, but by the time the sea sickness scene came along I was laughing and drawn in. The post marriage bedroom scene is funny.

There is a scene at the bar with Sydney Chaplin (Charlie’s son) where he tries to distract Michael Medwin, where Sydney looks amazingly like Charlie in attitude and timing – but this is probably due to diligent direction by his father.

A really nice theme music from Charlie again. Yes, it is old fashioned, a filmed play, was absolutely released in the wrong decade, with the wrong leading man, but does show some of the Chaplin traits and even perhaps genius, certainly his humanist philosophy in the treatment of homeless or stateless persons.

A real shame it was so savaged by critics at the time and disappointed him in his old age. He deserved better for his lifetime contribution to the art of film.

Didn’t rock my boat
Am a big fan of Charlie Chaplin, have been for over a decade now. Many films and shorts of his are very good to masterpiece, and like many others consider him a comedy genius and one of film’s most important and influential directors.

It is hard to not expect a lot with all his feature films between ‘The Kid’ and ‘Limelight’ being very good to masterpieces. On that front Chaplin’s penultimate film ‘A Countess from Hong Kong’ disappoints . As far as his feature films go it is his weakest and is really not a worthy film to go out on, being nowhere near the standard of ‘The Gold Rush’, ‘The Kid’, ‘Modern Times’, ‘The Great Dictator’ and especially ‘City Lights’. As far as his overall career goes it is among his lesser efforts, though marginally better than his early career short films it is much better than the worst of his Keystone period and even his much improved Essanay period had a couple of lacklustre ones. He also did a couple of historical curios and patchworks that this is also superior to. Not an awful film and better than its reputation, but really not great or a good representation of a genius and talented cast. Not really much to add here.

‘A Countess from Hong Kong’ has its very big problems. It is one of Chaplin’s least visually refined feature films. Some of the camera work and editing are rough and the setting is not convincing at all, not evocative in any way and more reminiscent very obvious stage-bound sets. Chaplin’s direction is him at his most uninspired and unfocused, he came over to me as not very interested.

The film does feel rather ponderous and stagy, and suffers further from being simplistic, even for a film intended to be slight, and repetitive. This is also apparent in the script, which doesn’t sparkle enough and too often lacks sophistication and wit. It does feel bland, with the biting satire being absent, the comedy lacking variety and inspiration (some of it feeling fatigued) and the pathos too far and between, didn’t mind the lack of the political element, and do have to agree that its approach is more suited to the 30s than the late 60s because it felt out of date even by 60s standards.

Marlon Brando was an amazing actor responsible for some of the best performances on film (his performance in ‘The Godfather’ in particular is iconic), but he was not immune to bad performances. Of which his painfully miscast role here is one of his worst, he is completely out of his depth, looks uncomfortable and miserable and plays the role too seriously and heavily. The chemistry between him and Sophia Loren is not there and too many of the cameos are pointless and wasted.

However, Loren does inject some charm and sensuality, while Tippi Hedren is a high point in a suitably icy, charming and ironic performance.

Margaret Rutherford is great fun, but other than Hedren the performance comes from a delightful Patrick Cargill.

Chaplin’s music score is beautifully incorporated and is a vibrant, characterful and pleasing to hear score in its own right. There are amusing moments, some wit and charm and a couple of the latter dramatic scenes have touching tenderness, again not coming consistently.

Overall, rather disappointing swansong, with everybody involved deserving much better, but it for all its faults is not as bad as its lukewarm at best reputation. 5/10 Bethany Cox

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr (120 min), 1 hr 48 min (108 min) (US) (USA)
Budget 3500000
Revenue 2000000
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director Charles Chaplin
Writer Charles Chaplin
Actors Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin
Country United Kingdom
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,291.84 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 50T 5251)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm