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Posted on 05/14/2026 6:12:50 PM PDT by Merrick
I'm looking for an old b-movie and am hoping someone just might have seen and remember it. Probably 1950s or perhaps 1940s. Black and white. The story centers on a Chinese woman who has been cared for her adult life by a western man. She was hobbled through foot binding as a child so has had to be cared for. Not sure, but I think the man has recently died leaving her alone, and she is telling her story to a woman who has come to help her. AI keeps suggesting Inn of the Sixth Happiness which is absolutely wrong. Definitely a b-movie and I remember seeing it as a late-latd movie in the mid-70s. Any help identifying the movie would be appreciated.
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Hi old-ager!p>It’s either “The Crimson Ghost” (1946), or “Radar Men from the Moon” (1952).
Wow UnBubba I will check those out. Thank you!
The only 50s movie about a Chinese woman and a western man that I recall is The China doll. Not sure I remember anything about foot binding, but then it’s been at least 20 years since I saw this
So, no, thanks for asking. I did it’s not Inn of the Sixth Happiness in the OP.
Thanks, everyone for all of the suggestions.
I had done the AI thing before I asked and gotten all of the same suggestions. As I indicated, I saw it for the first time on late night TV in the 1970s and it was black and white, so it’s not a film from 2011 or 1991, and I fed back into the AI. I did get China Doll and some of the others back. Those have some similar plot elements, but not the ones I am looking for.
For comparison for anyone familiar with it, the movie has a similar feel (production style, budget) to a film like King of Arizona.
A key distinctive from China Doll is that the story is told in flash back by the hobbled woman telling her story so all of the elements of the film are as witnessed by that woman and the man in the story is seen in that regard - not the main character, like is the case with Victor Mature in China Doll whose character is the protagonist.
Thanks for all of your suggestions. I’ll keep looking.
Make that The Baron of Arizona - 1950 - Vincent Price.
Can't remember why now. Think the main character - Robert Mitchum was so creepy.
Don’t forget that despite their potential AI back ends, most of the AI searches are still just glorified search engines. If no one wrote up a summary of the film you are looking for, then these tools have nothing to search or index. It’s no different than google in this regard.
I used your description and asked Gemini.
It came up with the one you mentioned and also said: “Possibility 2: Bound Feet & Western Dress (The Memoir)”
Thanks for taking the time and the suggestion - that appears to be only a book and not a movie - first published in 1996.
That’s right - that’s likely why AI is failing and why I reached out for gray matter!
He’s supposed to be creepy. It’s a complex juxtaposition. Show you who people pretend they are versus who they are.
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