The World of Suzie Wong, a 1960's film that stars William Holden (Robert Lomax) and Nancy Kwan (Mee Ling). The movie begins with Lomax on a ferry-boat in China where he meets the proper, stuck-up, rude, Mee Ling, who wrongly accuses him of stealing her purse, and gloats of her rich family and lifestyle.
Soon after, Lomax finds himself in a lower socio-economic area of China,specifically the Wan Chai District, where he unknowingly checks into a hotel which also doubles as a prostitution front and a bar for wayward American Navy-men.
Lomax is a former accountant who has decided to take a leave of absence in order to pursue his art (painting) and to try and make a career that he is more passionate about. Meanwhile, Mee Ling turns out to one of the prostitues who works in the hotel. After some cat and mouse play, Lomax hires her to paint pictures of her, rather than her usual business. Mee Ling pretends to her friends that he is madly in love with her and berrates her and beats her as a sign of his affection. It is extremely offensive. However Lomax doesn't do any of these things. He respects her, and falls in love with her. Lomax meets a banker and other Americans who discourage him from this relationship but to no avail. Lomax saves Mee Ling during a mudslide, and finds that she has a son, whom dies in the slide.
We assume the two go on to live happily ever after though.
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