The Detective

May 4, 1966

101 minutes

Tso Kea

Mystery

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...

Movie Details

Release Date

May 4, 1966

Runtime

101 minutes

Director

Tso Kea

Production Companies

San Aau (Xinyi) Movie-Making Company

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

Tang Cheung

Goon

Wong Hon

Ho Pak-Kwong

Waiter

Tai Sang-Po

Servant

Heung Hoi

Truck driver