Y.C. Zai/謝雲卿 (director/lead)
S.M. Chow/周詩穆 (cinematographer)
P.H. Yuen/嚴秉衡 (cinematographer)
Lyton Wong/王乃東 (lead)
T.S. Tong/湯天繡 (lead)
Chen Yi-Tang/陳一堂 (lead)
Yang Ai-Zhen/楊愛真 (lead)
Wang Xie-Yan/王謝燕 (lead)
Cui Tian-Sheng/催天生 (lead)
Zhang Fu-Feng/張扶風 (lead)
Wu Yi-Xiao/吳一笑 (lead)
Great China Lilium/大中華百合影片 (production)
When a young wife's indiscreet extramarital affair is discovered, she and her husband find themselves pressured into a divorce that neither of them wants, but tensions aggravated by their families' class differences seem to compel. The shorter length and abrupt ending suggest that the final reel may be missing. A clumsy and heavy-handed plea for old-school righteousness, saved only by its lavish interior settings and a shot of mixed-up Chinese telegraph code.
Sun Yu/孫瑜 (director/writer)
Zhou Ke/周克 (cinematographer)
Li Lili/黎莉莉 (lead)
Gao Zhan-Fei/高占非 (lead)
Liu Ji-Qun/劉繼群 (lead)
Han Lan-Gen/韓蘭根 (lead)
Lianhua (production)
Story of Ling-Ling, a hick hottie in Shanghai who discovers she's a magnet for lechers when she is raped by her boss, and then (a few hours later) by his goon, and then (a few hours later) tricked into following a devious old man who sells her to a brothel - all this in a single night, before daybreak. Finally, she learns to utilize her God-given talent to uplift the economy and the general condition of the human race - who then rape her one last time - and also learns to make lots of flag-waving speeches along the way. Filmed shortly after Japanese bombing of Shanghai, which may account for its over-the-top vibe.
Robert S. Baker (cinematographer/director)
Monty Berman (cinematographer/director)
Jimmy Sangster (author/writer)
Alexander Baron (writer)
Donald Sinden (lead)
Nicole Berger (lead)
Kieron Moore (lead)
Peter Wyngarde (lead)
Godfrey Quigley (lead)
Tutte Lemkow (lead)
George Pastell (lead)
The fascinating true story of a couple of anarchists in 1911 London that fought off the combined force of police and military is trampled by this monstrous mishmash of movie cliches, replacing it with "Siege of Sidney Street: The Musical" - an outrageously unbelievable tale of near total fiction, that's an excruciating bore to boot. For a better fictionalized Sidney Street Siege, check out the shootout in the final scene of Hitchcock's 1934 "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
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