A Countess From Hong Kong

Starring: Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren Original UK Premiere: 1967 Dvd Release: 7th March, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Full Screen, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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A Countess from Hong Kong was a 1967 comedy which is Charlie Chaplin s only color film, his last film & a financial failure. Except for a brief scene as a steward, Chaplin directed & produced the film only. The film starred Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren & Sydney Earle Chaplin, Chaplins second son. This film is best known for the theme music which became the hit song This is My Song created by Chaplin. Since the film was & remains to be almost universally disliked, the success of the song made back the money spent on the film. Chaplin went into a deep depression after its release. The plot concerns ambassador-designate to Saudi Arabia Ogdan Mears sailing back to America after traveling the world. He meets a women a Russian countess in Hong Kong who sneaks on board to escape forced prostitution.

Marlon Brando was an American actor who brought the techniques of method acting to prominence in the films A Streetcar Named Desire & On the Waterfront, both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s. His acting style, combined with his public persona as an outsider uninterested in the Hollywood of the early 1950s, had a profound effect on a generation of actors, including James Dean & Paul Newman & later stars, including Robert De Niro. Brando was born in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1935 his parents separated & his mother moved with her three children to Santa Ana, California. In 1937 his parents reconciled & the family moved to Libertyville, Illinois, north of Chicago. He was of Dutch, French, English & Irish stock; the original family name was Brandeau. His mother, a kind & talented woman with a drinking problem, was involved in local theater & this first interested him in stage acting. Brando was a gifted mimic from early childhood & developed a rare ability to absorb the tics & mannerisms of people he played & to display those traits dramatically while staying in character. Posters Of Marlon Brando

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Sophia Loren is one of the most famous Italian actresses of all time & even at the age of 70 continues to be considered one of the most desirable women on the planet. She was born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Pozzuoli, Italy, the illegitimate daughter of Romilda Villani & Riccardo Scicolone. She grew up there in poverty but found her way into small parts in European films in the early 1950s, often billed as Sofia Lazzaro. She was discovered by her future husband Carlo Ponti, who produced many of her films. One of her first major roles was as the titular character of the 1953 Italian film Due notti con Cleopatra. This film, like many of her other early roles, emphasized her voluptuous physique; she even appeared topless in a few films. Although she had appeared in a bit part in the Hollywood blockbuster Quo Vadis in 1951, it was not until 1957 s Boy on a Dolphin that Loren became a major international film star, due in part to the iconic image of her wearing a water-soaked, body-clinging dress. Posters Of Courage

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