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Flower drum song [videorecording (DVD)].

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Universal Pictures : distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2006.

First loves -- Drama.

Mail order brides -- Drama.

Arranged marriage -- Drama.

Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama.

Women immigrants -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama.

Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- 20th century -- Drama.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Flower drum song [videorecording (DVD)]

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower drum song [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

Special edition.

1 videodisc (132 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1961.

A 1961 film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The film and stage play were based on the 1957 novel of the same name by the Chinese American author C. Y. Lee.

Based on the novel "The Flower Drum Song" by C.Y. Lee.

In English (dolby 5.1 or 2.0) ; optional subtitles in English (SDH), Spanish or French.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Special features: Optional audio feature commentary with actress Nancy Kwan and and film historian Nick Redman ; Featurettes: A classic evolves: From print to stage to screen (19 min.) -- Faces of the east: casting 'Flower Drum Song' (9 min.) -- The songs of 'Flower Drum Song' (11 min.) -- An all-access pass to the sets and costumes of Flower Drum Song (6 min.) -- The legacy of Rodgers and Hammerstein (4 min.).

Universal-International presents ; a Ross Hunter production ; in association with Joseph Fields ; Rodgers & Hammerstein's ; music by Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd ; screenplay by Joseph Fields ; produced by Ross Hunter ; directed by Henry Koster ; director of photography, Russell Metty ; film editor, Milton Carruth ; music supervised and conducted by Alfred Newman ; choreography, Hermes Pan ; costumes, Irene Sharaff ; art directors, Alexander Golitzen and Joseph Wright ; technical advisors, H. K. Wong, Albert Lim.

Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong, Jack Soo, Juanita Hall, Reiko Sato, Patrick Adiarte, Kam Tong, Victor Sen Yung, Soo Yong, Ching Wah Lee, James Hong, Miyoshi Umeki.

Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang Ta, a handsome college student living in Chinatown, complications, merriment, and many musical numbers ensue.

Romantic comedy films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Koster, Henry, 1905-1988.

Shigeta, James.

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979.

Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960.

Lee, C. Y., 1917- Flower drum song. Film adaptations.

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