Jeff Bridges and Blythe Danner in Hearts of the West (1975)

Gary Cooper, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Ruth Roman in Blowing Wild (1953)

British film maker Carol Reed, who was among the first, is credited with the remark: “Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) is the most natural and complete outdoor set.” 

“The island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) is a small universe; it contains as many variations of culture, scenery, and climate as some countries a dozen times its size.” - Arthur C Clarke  wrote in The View from Serendip (1977)

Entire Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Is a Movie Set - Don Boyd Director East of Elephant Rock (1977)

Sri Lanka’s pre-eminence as a film location for international feature films goes back to at least 1950, when world recognised British and American film directors arrived in quick succession to make acclaimed feature films that were either partly or wholly shot on the island.

All below films location in lustrous sri Lanka and some of the art director actors and asst, directors are sri lankan. not to forget some of the movies academy award wining and world greatest!

Top International Movies Shot in Beautiful Sri Lanka.

Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, and Ann Sears in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Nearly added to the poverty row list , but Republic was not quite poverty , not quite a big studio .

British film noir - from 1930s precursors to films influenced by Hollywood ( and France ) , films made by blacklisted emigrees , and the huge amount of second feature , low budget crime films . These crime films culminate in the early to mid sixties with the Edgar Wallace series , plus the Edgar Lustgarten shorts . After that there are individual films that could be described as neo noir .

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, and Joanne Dru in 3 Ring Circus (1954)

Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles in Jane Eyre (1943)

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