Dir: Wu Pang
Orig Story: Tong Tik-sang
Scr: Lee Sau Kei
Prod Co: Lee Ying
Cast: Yam Kim-fai, Pak Suet-sin, Leung Sing-po, Fung Wong Nui, Cheng Wai-sum
1955 / B&W / D Beta / Cantonese / 80min

 

The celebrated Yam–Pak duo, as it happens, don't click at all in this situational farce of mistaken identity. Mung-wan (Yam Kim-fai), a huge spendthrift, followed the ill advice of his buddy (Leung Sing-po) to cheat cash out of his millionaire uncle in San Francisco with an alleged marriage. When told that the rich man will be back in town within days, they resort to asking their destitute tenant Man-wai (Pak Suet-sin) and the newborn in her arms to pose as Mung-wan's wife and son. The film is based on Tong's original opera, which was first staged on the Chinese New Year's Eve of 1954. Written in the vernacular with sidesplitting humour, this romantic comedy still speaks to the fact that Tong knows very well what's on the minds of the average Joes.