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Robert Stack, a freelance photographer on the loose in Red China, stumbles onto the secret of a long-buried treasure. Once back in Macao, he develops a case of justifiable paranoia when he is set upon by a chic Chinese princess (Nancy Kwan) who keeps sticking out her tong at him. Following this he is mugged and bugged by a vicious racketeer (Christian Marquand) and an avaricious police inspector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Misfortune Cookie | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...buddy Taylor, Airline Executive Glenn Ford undertakes an investigation of his own. Needless to say, Flyboy Taylor turns out to have been gay, dashing and brave, a model pilot who survived such hazards as a wartime encounter with Jane Russell and an irreproachable idyl with a Eurasian ichthyologist (Nancy Kwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Into the Soup | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

Next to fish, Kwan thinks mostly about the inexorability of Fate. In the movie's least credible scene, Ford solemnly reports Nancy's verdict to a panel of CAB experts: the crash victims died because "for some reason or other, their time had come." Luckily, even in Hollywood the CAB shows little inclination to ponder the inscrutable. So Ford plods ahead to prove that Kismet was probably just a little short circuit. Hunter seems an unlikely choice for inflight screenings. Passengers on the ground may view it at their own risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Into the Soup | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...story, which transpires at a Caribbean resort amid plastic palmettos and other touches of tropical realism, can best be described as follows: zzzzzzz. The players are equally interesting. Nancy Kwan, who claims to be a genuine Eurasian, looks like an American chorine with Scotch-taped eyelids. Jill St. John, who considers herself a comedienne, puts up a good front. Robert Goulet, whose talent is for singing, doesn't sing. And Keenan Wynn, who has probably been in worse pictures, looks as if he can't remember when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Morse Makes the Scene | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

Born. To Nancy Kwan. 25. Hong Kong-born actress, and Austrian Ski Instructor Peter Pock. 25: their first child, a son; in Innsbruck, Austria. Name: Peter Bernhard Pock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 5, 1963 | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

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