The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
	Original film poster
Directed by	Mark Robson
Screenplay by	Isobel Lennart
Based on	The Small Woman; 1957 biography; by Alan Burgess
Produced by	Buddy Adler
Starring	Ingrid Bergman; Curt Jürgens; Robert Donat;
Cinematography	Freddie Young
Edited by	Ernest Walter
Music by	Malcolm Arnold
Production; company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	23 November 1958 (World Premiere, London); 11 December 1958 (US);
Running time	158 minutes
Countries	United States; United Kingdom
Languages	English; Mandarin; Japanese; Russian;
Budget	$3,570,000
Box office	$9 million (worldwide)

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 20th Century Fox film loosely based on the story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British woman who became a missionary in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Mark Robson, who received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as Aylward and Curt Jürgens as her love interest, Captain Lin Nan, a Chinese Army officer with a Dutch father. Robert Donat, who played the mandarin of the town in which Aylward lived, died before the film was released. The musical score was composed and conducted by Malcolm Arnold. The cinematography was by Freddie Young.

The film was shot in Snowdonia, North Wales.^[3] Most of the children in the film were ethnic Chinese children from Liverpool, home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe.^[4]^[5]

^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p251
^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take", Variety, 6 January 1960 p 34
^ "Discover the must-see locations used for filming in Wales". visitwales.com. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
^ "China Town - Liverpool". CITY PORTAL LIVERPOOL. 28 September 2009. Archived from the original on 12 October 2006.
^ Munck, Ronaldo (2003)."Ethnic Minority Perspectives". Reinventing the City?: Liverpool in Comparative Perspective. Liverpool University Press. p. 132. ISBN 0-85323-807-3.