Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film) was killed and she runs to visit their favorite hilltop meeting place. The rights to the novel were bought by David Brown of 20th Century Fox for the producer Sol C. Siegel. However, when he left the company the project was given to Buddy Adler. Parts of the film were shot on location in Hong Kong by second-unit director Otto Lang, which was unusual for its time. Two weeks of location filming in Hong Kong had been completed before the final screenplay had been finished by screenwriter John Patrick. He then had to adapt the screenplay to include as many
Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing people. This made it the second most watched show on Fox's Animation Domination line up that night after "Family Guy", beating "Bob's Burgers, American Dad!", and "The Cleveland Show". The episode was met with mostly negative reviews, with Robert David Sullivan of "The A.V. Club" giving it a D+, saying, "This is an unusually focused story for The Simpsons, but it's padded out by self-deprecating cameos and perfunctory, "Family Guy"-style celebrity impressions." Rob H. Dawson of "TV Equals" said, "I just found 'Love is a Many Splintered Thing' to be completely boring and unsatisfying, is all." Love Is a Many-Splintered