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The Detective

May 4, 1966

1h 41m

★ 0.0

Overview

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...

Genres

Mystery

Production Companies

San Aau (Xinyi) Movie-Making Company

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Cast

Chan Kin-chau

Patrick Tse Yin

Ng Ying-lin

Chow Chung

Ho Yuk-lan

Chan Tsai-Chung

Police Sergeant/ Cheung Yu-shing

Wong Wai

Wu Him

Sek Kin

Mrs Wu

Helena Law Lan

Ho Pui-lan

Seung-Goon Yuk

Chan Kin-chau's assistant/ Fuk the Shortie

Aai Dung-Gwa

Ho Pui-lan and Yuk-lan's mother

Ma Siu-Ying

Chu Siu-Boh

Goon

Tang Cheung

Wong Hon

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