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The Detective

05/04/1966

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1hr 41min

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Mystery

STORY

Ho Pui-lan was the secretary of the writer Wu Him, but she died suddenly at home. Ho's mother commissioned private detective Chan Kin-chau to investigate and found out that Pui-lan and Him were having an extra-marital affair, and also discovered that the contents of Him's fiction were similar to the contents of Pui-lan's suicide note. When Kin-chau finds out that the contents of Him's fiction are similar to the contents of Pui-lan's suicide note, he and Pei Lan's sister Yuk-lan reenact the murder case, and Him is stimulated and hallucinated to reveal the truth of the murder...

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Patrick Tse Yin
  • Chow Chung
  • Chan Tsai-Chung
  • Wong Wai
  • Sek Kin

    Directors

  • Lou Wai
  • Wong Sum
  • Woo Mei-Bing

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • San Aau (Xinyi) Movie-Making Company

    Production Countries

LANGUAGES

  • Cantonese

Cast

Patrick Tse Yin

Chan Kin-chau

Chow Chung

Ng Ying-lin

Chan Tsai-Chung

Ho Yuk-lan

Wong Wai

Police Sergeant/ Cheung Yu-shing

Sek Kin

Wu Him

Helena Law Lan

Mrs Wu

Seung-Goon Yuk

Ho Pui-lan

Aai Dung-Gwa

Chan Kin-chau's assistant/ Fuk the Shortie

Ma Siu-Ying

Ho Pui-lan and Yuk-lan's mother

Chu Siu-Boh