OUR DREAM CAR

1959 Mandarin B/W 100mins
Director : Yi Wen / Cast : Ge Lan, Zhang Yang
Newlyweds Zhang Daming and Li Jiaying struggle hard to acquire the latest symbol of middle class affluence, a motor car, only to find themselves distancing from each other over this icon of upward mobility.

BACHELORS BEWARE

1960 Mandarin B/W 88mins
Director : Yi Wen / Cast : Lin Dai, Zhang Yang
Zhang Zhengguang and Zhang Ciming are brothers of different temperaments. Ciming is happily married; Zhengguang on the other hand owns an advertising firm and chooses to remain single while simultaneously dating three girls. One day, Zhengguang's fiancée, Ding Xiaoyuan comes to Hong Kong and, together with Ciming and his wife, devises a plan to defeat her rivals one at a time.

THE BEDSIDE STORY

1960 Mandarin B/W 93mins
Director : Bu Wancang / Cast : Li Mei, Zhang Yang
Jiang Zhenmei wins the Best Actress Award for her role in A Bolt From The Blue, a movie by Cheng Tingwen, who is also the year's Best Director. Zhenmei and Tingwen announce their engagement, which is opposed by Tingwen's brother. Tingwen is puzzled when his bride says that they have
to live in separate rooms for the sake of her career. He is shocked when his wife continues to patronize nightclubs and flirt with wealthy merchants and producers.

BETWEEN TEARS AND LAUGHTER

1960 Mandarin B/W 102mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Ding Hao, Li Mei
Three roommates Zhao Shuxian, Peng Meifen and Xu Manli stay together in harmony. Shuxian, a divorcée, works in a music store to foot the medical bills for her son. She eventually reunites with her husband. Manli works in a department store and is head over heels in love with her pen pal Cheng
Dajiang but eventually marries Jiahua, the young proprietor of the department store. Meifen, a fiction writer, moaning for years over the death of her air-force-hero friend, ends up with Dajiang.

DREAMS COME TRUE

1960 Mandarin B/W 95mins
Director : Bu Wancang / Cast : Ding Hao, Lei Zhen
Peng Xihong escorts his mother to Kowloon Pier to welcome Miss Feng Jinfen, the daughter of a wealthy Chinese from San Francisco. Peng and his mother have brought a banner bearing her name as they do not recognise Miss Feng. When Miss Feng does not show up, they are disappointed.
Meanwhile, Fangfang, a poor orphan, in an attempt to avoid arrest by the police for peddling, dashes into Peng's car and is mistaken by the chauffeur for Miss Feng.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER

1960 Mandarin B/W 93mins
Director : Yi Wen / Cast : You Min, Qiao Hong
Jin Wenou falls out with his business-minded father when he decides on painting instead of studying business. Mary, his fiancée, finances him to get his own studio. One day his dying father wishes to see Mary. Unable to contact her, Wenou gets Wanping to stand in. Wenou's father miraculously
recovers upon seeing Wanping. He is infuriated when Wenou tells him that his fiancée is actually Mary and declares Wanping as the only heiress to his fortune.

JUNE BRIDE

1960 Mandarin B/W 103mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Ge Lan, Zhang Yang
Mr Wang escorts his daughter Danlin to Hong Kong to be married to Dong Jifang, the son of a rubber magnate. Before Danlin's arrival, Jifang bids dance hostess Bai Jin a final good-bye. Jifang invites Mai Qin to his home with the intention to match-make him and Bai. The next morning, Jifang fails to meet Danlin at the pier. Danlin shows up at Jifang's house and is mistaken for Bai by Mai. An angry Danlin refuses to marry Jifang. In frustration, Jifang proposes to Bai instead.

SISTER LONG LEGS

1960 Mandarin B/W 97mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Ye Feng, Lin Cui
At a lavish party, Jingfang meets Charlie, the son of a soap tycoon and immediately tries to get Tingting, her older daughter interested in Charlie. But the statuesque Tingting has already fallen for the handsome Xiaojin, a seemingly down-to-earth car mechanic. Jingfang desperately tries all means to create dating opportunities between Tingting and Charlie. When Jingfang finally finds out that Xiaojin actually comes from a wealthy family that owns several car dealerships, she agrees to let Tingting marry him.

BEAUTY PARADE

1961 Mandarin B/W 104mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Ding Hao, Lei Zhen
Farmer Guo Laokun decides to send his daughter Sue to a school in the city. Sue's agility gets her into the basketball team. Her performance in an inter-school match wins her immense popularity, but she fails to pass the final school examination. With the support from her friends, Sue manages to pass the re-examination. Alas, without her, the school basketball team sustains continual defeats. Sue's re-appearance miraculously saves the team and Sue is crowned 'Queen of Sports'.

THE GREATEST CIVIL WAR ON EARTH

1961 Mandarin/Cantonese B/W 109mins
Director : Wang Tianlin / Cast : Bai Luming, Liang Xingbo
Li Sibao, a Northerner opens a swanky tailor shop next to the old-fashioned tailor shop of Zhang Sanbo, a Cantonese. The contrast in culture annoys Zhang and Li so much that they forbid their kids to befriend people from each other's dialect group. To make matters worse, when Li's business
almost drives him to bankruptcy, he tries to borrow money and much to his humiliation, the moneylender happens to be Zhang, who of course turns him down.

YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME

1961 Mandarin B/W 100mins
Director : Wang Tianlin / Cast : Ding Hao, Lei Zhen
Tomboyish Yanan and girl-shy Ailun are childhood playmates. Ailun and Shiwen, a nurse at the hospital he works in, are secretly in love with each other. To play a practical joke on Ailun, Yanan decides to visit him at the hospital disguised as a man. To make Ailun jealous, Shiwen takes this
opportunity to flirt with Yanan, thinking she's a man. Ailun is provoked into accepting a challenge by Yanan to see who succeeds in winning over Shiwen first.

CRUSADE AGAINST DADDY

1962 Mandarin B/W 102mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Lin Cui, Luo Wei
Luo Guangzong is married to Qiu Qionghua for twenty years and is blessed with five daughters although he hopes for a son to pass on the family name. Guangzong's sister urges him to take a concubine. When the daughters know of this, they devise solutions to tackle the problem. Qionghua decides to leave home and his daughters follow suit. When Guangzong sees how disrespectful his sister's son is towards her, he realises the importance of his daughters' love and how ludicrous his outdated values are.

DOUBLE DATE

1962 Cantonese B/W 114mins
Director : Wang Tianlin / Cast : Lin Feng, Bai Luming
Hoping to find her fortune, Shangguan Fu comes to Hong Kong alone, with no friends and relatives to lend a helping hand. Fortunately, Wen Wanhui, a waitress at Moonlight Restaurant, manages to get her a job at the restaurant. Alas, their boss proves too miserly and the two defiant girls quit together. As the sisters-in-arms look for work in the fast-paced city, they run into various misadventures. Striken by their beauty, the Rong brothers try to help them but are mistaken for lecherous scoundrels.

THE GREATEST WEDDING ON EARTH

1962 Mandarin/Cantonese B/W 104mins
Director : Wang Tianlin / Cast : Bai Luming, Lei Zhen
While dining at the restaurant of southerner Shen Jingbing, northerner Li Shipu kicks up a fuss. Li opens his own restaurant in the vicinity to spite Shen. Shen's son brings his girlfriend Manling home and all are impressed with her only to find out later that she is Li's daughter. Unwilling to talk to each other, Shen and Li discuss their children's wedding through their other daughter and son respectively. After the wedding, Shen and Li faint when their other daughter and son also plan to get married.

LADIES FIRST

1962 Mandarin B/W 98mins
Director : Yi Wen / Cast : Lin Cui, Qiao Hong
Chen Liujing and Zhang Lihong, both in their twenties meet Wang Shu and Li Rong. Lihong admits she fancies Li Rong while Liujing likes Wang Shu. The boys on the other hand prefer the opposite.

THE GREATEST LOVE AFFAIR ON EARTH

1964 Mandarin/Cantonese B/W 108mins
Director : Wang Tianlin / Cast : Bai Luming, Lei Zhen
Northerner Tang Deren, a real estate dealer, is highly prejudiced against the Cantonese. He objects to his daughter's relationship with Cantonese school teacher Jian Liang. When he finds out that Ms Jian Lanhua, a wealthy woman from the United States is actually Jian Liang's aunt, Tang
encourages his daughter's relationship with him. Ms Jian's flight is delayed. Jian Liang persuades his friend Lin, a funny fellow to disguise himself as his aunt. At a beach party to welcome her, Tang decides to propose to 'Ms Jian'.

LITTLE MATCHMAKER

1967 Mandarin Colour 88mins
Director : Wang Tianlin / Cast : Lin Cui, Zhang Yang
A department store salesgirl meets her Prince Charming accidentally on an outing trip. She does not tell him her occupation, neither does he tell her that he is to become the manager of the store at which she is employed.

THE MAGIC FAN

1967 Mandarin Colour 88mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Le Di, Zhao Lei
An engaged couple, Zigu and Xiu go to the Temple of Fairy to offer their prayers. Seeing that the Fairy resembles Xiu, Zigu praises the Fairy's beauty. Highly displeased, Xiu speaks rudely and offends the Fairy. In return, the Fairy casts a magic spell on the couple, making them enemies.

DARLING STAY AT HOME

1968 Mandarin Colour 94mins
Director : Wang Tianlin / Cast : Le Di, Zhang Yang
Zhang works at Queen's Hotel as the chief of the public relations department. His wife Ruijuan is displeased with his ideology of domesticity of women. She disguises herself and gets a job at Queen's Hotel. Ruijuan's mastery of several languages and skilful management soon see her promoted to head the public relations department. Zhang is forced to accept the lesser post as her deputy. Her concealed identity is soon to be exposed by Zhang but eventually he scrapes his preposterous philosophy.

TEENAGERS' HOLIDAY

1968 Mandarin Colour 87mins
Director : Yuan Qiufeng / Cast : Li Linlin, Jin Chuan
Wang Kai and his friends are members of a popular boy band. They arrive in Hong Kong for a series of engagements. Eager to exploit the group, their manager accepts all contracts that are offered. The boys find themselves overworked and decide to go to the countryside. Alice, the daughter of a
wealthy family, is an ardent fan and she manages to convince her mother into agreeing to engage the group to perform at her birthday party.

HERE COME THE WOLVES

1969 Mandarin Colour 95mins
Director : Wang Liuzhao / Cast : Zhang Huixian, Chen Hao
Hao Juren, the fat, middleaged and married general manager of a trading firm, has a weakness for pretty girls. At a club, he meets a beautiful girl called Li Li. His employee Bai Dexian, eager to please him, devices a scheme to help Juren get close to Li Li and at the same time, get rid of two other
girls whom Juren has grown tired of. Despite all efforts, the plan fails and Li Li and Dexian fall in love with each other instead.

HOW LOVE IS TESTED

1969 Mandarin Colour 82mins
Director : Wang Tianlin / Cast : Zhou Xuan, Zhang Yang
Going through the pockets of her husband Shaobai's suit jacket, Connie finds a woman's photograph. The jacket in fact belongs to Dafan, a colleague of Shaobai. They have worn each other's jacket home by mistake. Intensely jealous, Connie asks her girlfriend Feifei who is visiting from abroad to
test her husband's fidelity.

MONKEY IN HONG KONG

1969 Mandarin Colour 106mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Zhang Huixian, Tian Qing
One day, while looking at the magic mirror in heaven, Heavenly Pig sees Hong Kong. Mesmerised by the bright lights, he decides to give the city a visit. His teacher, Monk Tang, accompanied by two other disciples, Monkey God and Monk Sha, rushes after him with the intention of bringing him back to heaven.

THE EXTRA DUTY OF A GOVERNESS

1970 Mandarin Colour 87mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Chen Manling, Jiang Shan
Wealthy widower Tang Huaigu leaves the care of his two sons, the handsome footballer Jun and the mischievous 12-year-old Ji to his sister-in-law Aunt Bei. Aunt Bei decides to engage a governess for Ji. When Mai Meijuan comes for an interview, Aunt Bei is out and Jun, seeing Meijuan's youth and beauty engages her on the spot. Meijuan easily wins over the hearts of the entire family, especially Jun who is now madly in love with her.

THE HOMEMAKER

1970 Mandarin Colour 94mins
Director : Liu Fanggang / Cast : Li Linlin, Chen Hao
After their honeymoon, Xiongxiong resumes work and Linlin takes up housekeeping. Very soon she is bored and learns to play mahjong with her neighbours. Being a novice, she loses money easily. She is so obsessed with the game that she cannot find time for her husband. In order to spite his wife, Xiongxiong pretends to fall in love with a cabaret hostess. His act is so convincing that Linlin wants a divorce.

THE LUCKY ONES

1970 Mandarin Colour 82mins
Director : Wang Liuzhao / Cast : Zhang Qi, Wang Chen
The jobless and penniless Long and Cai rescue a little rich boy from an accident. The child's grandmother is so grateful that she orders that the two men be given jobs at the family's night club. As kitchen assistants, they are more of a hindrance than help and often get into disastrous situations.

THE LUCKY STRIKE

1970 Mandarin Colour 82mins
Director : Liu Fanggang / Cast : Hu Yinyin, Xie Rong
A poor young artist, He Bi lives in a roof hut. Despite her mother's disapproval, Lihua falls in love with He Bi. The mother soon notice that her daughter is showing signs of pregnancy and suspects that He Bi is responsible. Fu, a butcher who has been supporting Lihua and her family confronts He Bi. Amid the noise of their quarrel, the radio broadcasts the numbers of the winning race tickets and He Bi wins top prize.

MY SUITORS

1970 Mandarin Colour 80mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Zhang Qi, Qiao Hong
He Xiaolan comes back to Hong Kong with her twin sister Xiaoqing after an accident in Singapore. The news that Xiaolan's pretty face may have been horribly mutilated saddens Zhu, one of her suitors while her other two boyfriends turn their attention to Xiaoqing instead. While the two are busy wooing Xiaoqing, Zhu tells Xiaolan that he has been saving money to send her to Japan for plastic surgery. Touched by his sincerity and faithfulness, Xiaolan takes off her bandage to reveal that she is not hurt. This is a test to find out who really deserves her.

MONKEY COMES AGAIN

1971 Mandarin Colour 84mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Tan Yili, Tian Qing
The gate of heaven is smashed open by a test missile and Heavenly Pig sneaks into a spaceship, navigates it towards earth and lands in Hong Kong. Master Monk Tang sends the Monkey God to bring him back. After numerous hilarious happenings on earth, Heavenly Pig, Monkey God and
Master Monk Tang return to heaven.

A RESORT CALLED HELL

1972 Mandarin Colour 102mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Long Juner, Tian Qing
An incorrigible gambler, Ming fakes death to end his money problems. However, he is caught by the Hades guard whose orders are to take anyone lying in a coffin to Hades regardless of whether he is dead or alive. Fortunately, Ming has taken along a lot of paper money (Hades currency) and bribes his way out. Ming notices that Hades is as corrupt as the human world and sets out to convince his friend to join him to try to make their fortunes there.