n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

A Countess from Hong Kong is romantic farce with Marlon Brando playing a would be Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ogden Mears who meets a down on her luck Russian countess Natascha (Sophia Loren) who is stranded in Hong Kong working as a sleazy dance girl. She sneaks aboard into the cruise ship and into his grand cabin to get to America. Mears in order to avoid a scandal keeps her hidden before he can figure how to get her out of the ship.Charlie Chaplin who wrote and directed this, his final film also makes a brief cameo appearance as the ship's aged steward. The film is really an old fashioned farce and looks like a stage play with plenty of knocking and banging of doors. It does not contain the political satire of other Chaplin feature films.The film was shot in England and I could not figure out what kind of accent Brando had as he sounded more mid Atlantic. Whereas Loren was beautiful and more adept at humour, Brando does seem ill at ease with his character and the comedy but later in his life in the movie, The Freshman, Brando showed he was skilled at light comedy.Yet the movie is worth it for its curiosity value of Brando appearing in a Chaplin film with Margaret Rutherford, Tippi Hedren, Patrick Cargill and Sophia Loren.

A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)** (out of 4) The wealthy Ogden Mears (Marlon Brando) is in Hong Kong where he is partying a bit one night and then wakes up the next morning with his ship on its way to the next location. The only problem is that Natascha (Sophia Loren) has decided to stowaway on the boat and Mears must keep her hidden so that no one sees her.A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG would turn out to be the final film from the legendary Charles Chaplin. It's really too bad this film was so lame and it's just shocking because you've got Chaplin, Brando and Loren. Three legends of the big screen and it turns into a movie like this. It seems everyone hated one another but this here really doesn't show on the screen. The biggest problem is that this film was simply made thirty years too late.I say that because the structure is something you'd see from a screwball comedy in the 1930s. I mean, why in 1967 would someone be worried about a woman being found in his room? There are many scenes where the two are frantically going from one hiding spot to the next and Brando takes a couple falls along the way. It's just not that funny. In fact, very little is actually funny here and while it's an okay time killer, the film just never adds up to much.I thought Loren was good enough in her role. She's strikingly beautiful and her in that white evening gown was one of the few highlights. As far as Brando goes, yeah, this wasn't the type of role for him. Apparently Chaplin wanted Cary Grant or David Niven and Brando certainly isn't either of them. He's way too stiff in the part and the constant fighting between him and Chaplin behind the camera probably didn't make him want to be much better. He's not horrid in the part but it's clear that he's not right for it.A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG has pretty much been forgotten over the years and it's easy to see why. The film isn't quite as awful as its reputation but when you've got three legends in one movie you just expect more.

A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG (1967) is a silly slapstick romantic comedy and is somewhat entertaining in that Brando is in an atypical role. Sophia Loren stars as a Russian countess who stows away in a rich American's (Brando) stateroom on a cruise liner to escape a life of forced prostitution. Teppi Hedron is also on hand. This was director Charlie Chaplin's last film; he went into a depression after its box-office failure. The problem I have with it is that it's completely set-bound on the cruise liner; in fact, practically the entire film takes place in Brando's quarters, which gives it a goofy sitcom vibe.The film runs 108 minutes.GRADE: C-

A Countess From Hong Kong was the last film Charles Chaplin directed, produced, and acted in, though he appears only very briefly as an old ship steward. The film stars a woefully miscast Marlon Brando as Ogden Mears, a U.S. Ambassador, who meets Sophia Loren, a runaway Russian Countess from Hong Kong. She stows away on Brando's ship, imposing on him while aboard. What could have have been a screwball farce in the 1930's or 1940's became a resounding dud in the 1960's. The script is the biggest letdown, and apparently Chaplin wrote it many years ago without revisiting it before shooting. The film simply isn't funny beyond a chuckle or two. Why he decided to cast Brando is anyone's guess, but the two did not get along during filming at all. Loren tries hard, but she would certainly have fared better with another light comedy type of actor. The film spends far too much time in Brando's room, and one gets the idea Chaplin had to economize on the sets somehow to be able to re-shoot scenes due to the rigidity of filming on a tight schedule in England. The always underused Tippi Hedren only appears in the last twenty minutes as Brando's suspicious wife. Chaplin's son Sydney as Harvey and Patrick Cargill as Hudson are the two bright spots in the film. Margaret Rutherford appears as Miss Gaulswallow in a nice cameo. Geraldine Chaplin appears as a young lass in the dancing scene, as well as Chaplin's younger children Josephine and Victoria. It's a very disappointing final film from Chaplin. *1/2 of 4 stars.