Vintage Pulp | Mar 27 2012 |
![MYSTERIOUS WORLD](/images/headline/1637.png)
Looking for love in all the Wong places.
This is the cover of a Chinese language promotional pamphlet published in Hong Kong for the 1960 American movie The World of Suzie Wong, which starred William Holden and Nancy Kwan as star-crossed lovers from different worlds. He was an office worker who had run away to Hong Kong to become a painter; she was a hooker in a sex hotel who offered herself to him but instead became his model. The film has all the shortcomings of love stories involving squares and hookers, but it’s really just a question of accepting the premise. People who love Suzie Wong seem smitten by the exotic setting just as much as by the characters, so when we saw this item with all its interior photos from Hong Kong we had to snag it. Thirteen more scans below.