Escape To Freedom (黑獄大逃亡)
Although sharing top billing with the male lead, Loretta Yang Hui-Shan's role is really a cameo: she does not appear in
this World War 2 yarn until the 67-minute mark, when she makes a brief speech, serves as eye candy for awhile, then disappears - maybe to stock up on more
hair gel and blow dryers for the boys' well-coiffed 80s hairdos, scored from somplace in one of the postwar high-rises that appear in the film's final
three minutes, and carrying it in the 70s Cadillac that appears at the beginning. The only thing that escaped the influence of postwar modernism was the
feudal dialogue, that has all characters paying obeisance to the hero as a superman (活神仙), while insulting and abusing viewer intelligence with
scenarios that scream 'No way!' (如何能?). After Chen Hung-Lieh's intense performance in the opening, nothing here but Escape To Tedium.