| An orphan's tragedy |
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| Language |
Dialogue in Cantonese ;
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| Period |
Contemporary.
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| Genre |
Melodrama (Wenyi) (Genre)
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| Note |
Based on Charlie Dickens' "Great expectations".
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| Release Date |
11. 02. 1955.
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| Prod. Place |
Hong Kong.
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| Credits |
Director, Chu Kea.
Scriptwriter, Lau Fong, Chu Kea, Cheng Kang ; Producer, Lau Fong ; Original Story, Charles Dickens ; Photorgraphy, Suen Lun ; Film Editor, Kwong Kam-wu, Leung Kung ; Music, Lam Sing-yap.
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| Casts |
Ng Cho Fan (as Fan Tin-sang), Cheung Wood Yau (as Fuk-kwan), Yung Siu-yi, Mui Yee, Bruce Lee (as Wong Fuk-kwan - child), Josephine Siao, Lau Hark-suen (as To Chai-yan), Wong Cho-shan.
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| Prod. Co |
Hong Kong : The Union Film Enterprise Ltd., 1955.
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| Other Organisation |
Hong Kong : International Films Distributing Agency [Distribution] ; Wader Motion Picture & Development Co. Ltd. [Filming], 1955 [Release].
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| Title |
An orphan's tragedy
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| Pinyin |
Gu xing xue lei
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| Synopsis |
Rascal To Chai-yan brings a false charge of selling fake medicine against doctor Fan Tin-sang, who is sentented to a twenty-year imprisonment. Fan makes an escape after a decade, and secretly provides for the education of his son Fuk-kwan brought up by a poor blacksmith. Fuk-kwan grows up to be a doctor practising in the country. To again does harm to Fuk-kwan, only this time Fan intervenes. Both he and To die in the fight.
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| Theme Song |
'The passing years' / Librettist, Chow Long ; Singer, Yung Siu-yi.
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| Organisation |
The Union Film Enterprise Ltd., production.
International Films Distributing Agency, distribution.
Wader Motion Picture & Development Co., Ltd., filming.
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| Collection |
DVD. Hong Kong : 珠城錄像有限公司. 1 DVD (PAL) (115 min.) : sd., b&w. Dialogue in Cantonese ; Subtitled in Traditional Chinese/English. DVD3038.
VCD. Hong Kong : 珠城錄像有限公司. 2 VCD (113 min.) : sd., b&w. Dialogue in Cantonese ; Subtitled in Chinese & English. VCD3502 (c.1-c.3).
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| Translate of |
孤星血淚. 孤星血淚
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| Personality |
Chu Kea, 1920-1988, director. scriptwriter.
Lau, Fong (director , script, executive producer of the 30-80's), 1913-2004/7/15, scriptwriter. producer.
Cheng, Kang, (director, script of the 50-90's), 1924/4/4- scriptwriter.
Dickens, Charles, original story.
Suen Lun, 1919/9/12-2001/11/25, photorgraphy.
Kwong, Kam-wu, film editor.
Leung, Kung (editing), film editor.
Lam, Sing-yap, 1914/9/5-1991/7/14, music.
Chow, Long, (music, script, asst. director), librettist.
Yung, Siu-yi, 1921-1974/3/17, singer. cast.
Ng Cho Fan, 1911/7/4-1993/2/22, cast.
Cheung Wood Yau, 1910-1985/12/10, cast.
Mui Yee, 1923-1966/8/17, cast.
Lee, Bruce, 1940/11/27-1973/07/20, cast.
Siao, Josephine, 1947/3/13- cast.
Lau, Hark-suen, 1910-1983/1/24, cast.
Wong, Cho-shan, cast.
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