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  • Director: Waris Hussein
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Political Drama
  • Themes: Interracial/Cross-Cultural Romance
  • Main Cast: Melissa Gilbert, Robin Shou
  • Release Year: 1990
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 96 minutes

Plot

Forbidden Nights is set in the Red China of 1979. Robin Shou plays a Chinese radical, working on behalf of bringing political reform to his homeland. Melissa Gilbert costars as an American teacher who falls in love with Shou. The dramatic thrust of the story is Ms. Gilbert's willingness to put her own life on the line for Shou's ideals. This made-for-TV star-crossed romance was filmed in Hong Kong, seven years before it too would fall within the Mainland China orbit. Forbidden Nights was directed by Waris Hussein, the Indian-born craftsman responsible for such theatrical features as Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970) and The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Melissa Sue Anderson; Khigh Dhiegh - Lu Ming; Melissa Gilbert - Judith Shapiro; Tzi Ma; Beulah Quo - Vice Dean Yin; Robin Shou - Liang Hong; Augustine Lam - Ma Soong; Victor Wong - Ho

Credit

Waris Hussein - Director, Parkie Singh - Editor, Lucia Hwong - Composer (Music Score), Brian West - Cinematographer

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Forbidden Nights
Directed by Waris Hussein
Produced by Charles Jennings
Written by Judith Shapiro
Tristine Rainer
David Hwang
Starring Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Sue Anderson
Music by Lucia Hwong
Cinematography Brian West
Editing by Diane Adler
Parkie L. Singh
Distributed by CBS
Release date(s) April 10, 1990
Running time 96 minutes
Country USA
Language English

Forbidden Nights is a 1990 television film directed by Waris Hussein. The film is based on the article The Rocky Course of Love in China, written by Judith Shapiro. The film was shot in Hong Kong and stars Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson, who both co-starred in Little House on the Prairie.[1]

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Plot

Set in Red China in 1979, the film focuses on Judith Shapiro, an American teacher who falls in love with Liang Hong, a Chinese radical, trying to bring political reform to his homeland. She puts all her wishes and dreams away to fit into his ideals, but soon, trouble starts to come.

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References

  1. ^ Review Summary The New York Times

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