The Owl vs Bumbo
Scr: Cheung Lai-ling
Prod Co: D & B
Cast: Sammo Hung, Michelle Yeoh, George Lam, Deanie Ip, Stanley Fung
1984 | Colour | DCP | Cantonese | 102min
With an all-star cast, director Sammo Hung, also one of the leading men alongside George Lam, gives this cops-and-robbers film a twist and a slight social conscience, with a suspenseful but fun and touching storyline. Two retired master thieves are blackmailed by a mystery man, who has proof of their past crimes, into helping out at a youth probation centre where the juvenile delinquents give them a hard time. With wildly contrasting physical images and public personas, Hung and Lam bring electrifying and entertaining chemistry into the film. It also marks the film debut of Michelle Yeoh, who plays a gentle and quiet social worker, a role that is very rare and different from her later career as an action star.
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18/12/2022 (Sun) [Full House] | 11:00am | Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive |
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