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Ferry to Hong Kong (Original title)
Dates: 1959 (Copyright), 28 December 1959 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Synopsis: Story of an outcast who is forced to journey back and forth between Hong Kong and Macao on a ferry boat whose captain hates him.

Genre:
Drama

Subjects:
Hong Kong, Macau
Releases
Date: 1959Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 113 mins Length: 10170 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Rank Film Distributors

Credits (34)
©: Rank Organisation Film Productuions Limited, closing logo: British and Dominions Film Corporation, Executive Producer: Earl St. John, Produced by: George Maynard, Production Manager: John Dark, Assistant Director: Bert Batt, Continuity: Gladys Goldsmith, Screenplay by: Vernon Harris, Screenplay by: Lewis Gilbert, Additional Dialogue: John Mortimer, Based upon the novel by: Max Catto, Director of Photography: Otto Heller, Camera Operator: Harold Haysom, Stills Photography: Harry Gillard, Special Effects: Syd Pearson, Editor: Peter Hunt, Production Designer: John Stoll, Construction Manager: Ronnie Udell, Make-up: Bob Lawrance, Processed by: Rank Laboratories (Denham) Limited, A CinemaScope Picture: CinemaScope, Lenses: Bausch & Lomb, [Filmed] In: Eastman Color, Music Composed by: Kenneth V. Jones, [Music] Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Chinese Song 'The Four Seasons' Arranged by: Fook Ling Wong, Sound Recordist: C.C. Stevens, Sound Recordist: Bill Daniels, Sound Editor: Arthur Ridout, Sound Editor: Archie Ludski, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Chinese Adviser: Lee Shiu, A Pinewood Production: Pinewood Studios
Cast (15)
Curt Jurgens (Mark Bertram Conrad), Orson Welles (Captain Cecil Hart), Sylvia Syms (Liz Ferrers), Jeremy Spenser (Miguel Henriques), Noel Purcell (Joe Skinner), Margaret Withers (Miss Carter), John Wallace (police inspector), Milton Reid (Yen), Roy Chiao Hung (Johnny Sing-Up), Shelley Shen (Foo Soo), Louis Seto (Tommy Cheng), Kwan Shan Lam (first guardian), Ronald Decent (Portuguese major), Don Carlos (archdeacon), Nick Kendall (2nd police inspector)