Morning Matinee

Film Screenings


The Beautiful Heaven

Dirs/ Scrs: Wong Toi, Mok Hong-si, Lung To, Wu Pang, Fung Chi-kong, Lee Tit,
Ng Wui, Wong Hok-sing, Lo Yu-kei, Chu Kea
Cast: Leung Sing-po, Cheung Ying, Woo Fung, Law Yim-hing, Cecilia Lee Fung-sing
1964 / B&W / D Beta / Cantonese / 108min

The Ten Brothers Motion Picture Enterprise Co. completed this film within a few days, with a star-studded cast including Ng Chofan, Pak Yin, Lam Fung, Tso Tat-wah, Yu So Chow, Yam Kim-fai and Yu Lai-zhen, and the ten directors playing cameo roles as security guards. Leung Sing-po, together with assistants Cheung Ying, Woo Fung, Cecilia Lee Fung-sing and Law Yim-hing, runs a company that helps people to solve their problems. Cheung is hired to pose as a wealthy businessman, and ends up retrieving a huge stolen diamond. Woo Fung pretends to be a psychologist to get close to his estranged girlfriend and ends up winning over her heart. After going undercover in a nightclub, Cecilia Lee Fung-sing breaks up a mafia gang and helps to save a girl. Thanks to the comic acting of the ensemble cast, the “omnibus” plot has plenty of gags and is highly watchable.

4/10 (Fri) 11:00am Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive  

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