Hong Kong Film Posters 2
The Battle of Love
Director: Yueh Feng
1957
Starring: Linda Lin Dai, Zhang Yang, Peter Chen,
Nellie Chin Yu (in order of picture)
Production Company: Cathay
Script: Eileen Chang
Nellie Chin Yu was one of Cathay's more famous
scriptwriters - The More the Merrier, Her Tender Heart, Too
Young to Love, Sun, Moon and Star, A Story of Three Loves
being five of the twenty scripts she wrote for Cathay. She rarely acted,
but plays the sister of Linda's character here.
The Prince's Romantic Affairs
Director: Tso Kea
1958
Starring: Mui Yee, Cheung Ying, Leung Sing-po
Production Company: Gam Moon
A Beauty in Times of War
Director: Yeung Kung-leung
1959
Starring: Ho Fei-fan, Leung Sing-po, Lan Chi-pak,
Mak Bing-wing
Production Company: Chat Choi
The Kingdom and the Beauty
Director: Li Han-hsiang
1959
Starring: Linda Lin Dai, Zhao Lei, King Hu
Production Company: Shaw Brothers
One of the Shaw's first big budget Huangmei Opera's
and was a huge success at the box office
Besieged
Director: Chow See-luk
1959
Starring: Patrick Lung Kong, Tong Dan, Mak Gei
Production Company: Shaw Brothers (their Cantonese
division)
Lung Kong was later to become a well-known director
with The Story of a Discharged Prisoner and Teddy Girls and
the producer of Love Massacre
Cinderella and Her Little Angels
Director: Tong Wong
1959
Starring: Linda Lin Dai, Peter Chen, Dolly Soo
Fung, Liu Enjia
Production Company: Cathay
Cute musical romantic comedy - recommended to
those who like that genre
Mr. Wong is in His Wife's Dress By Mistake
Director: Wong Hok-sing
1959
Starring: Sun Ma Si Tsang, Fung Wong-nui
Production Company: Yulin Film
Follow the Husband
Director: Chu Gei
1959
Starring: Fong Yim-fen, Law Kim-long (also the
producer of the film)
Production Company: Guozhen
Death Traps
Director: Wong Tin-lam
1960
Starring: Helen Li Mei, Roy Chao
Production Company: Cathay
Shot in Macau
So so noir thriller
Torrents of Spring
Director: Doe Chin
1960
Starring: Helen Li Mei, Jeanette Lin Tsui, Tin
Ching
Production Company: Cathay
Shot in Macau
Plot: Innocent boy falls in love with young girl
but is seduced by older wealthy woman!
For a racy (for its time) publicity shot of Helen
Li Mei, click here
