A private investigator and a police inspector team up to pursue a notorious mobster, who is plotting to milk an old millionaire out of his highly-valued stocks and bonds. Along the way, the investigator crosses paths with a femme fatale and silly gangsters.
Direction
Tsui Hark's early kinetic style before he became a wuxia legend.
Acting
Teddy Robin's deadpan inspector vs George Lam's slick PI chemistry.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI Hong Kong stunt work and elaborate physical comedy sequences.
Director
Tsui Hark
George Lam Tsz-Cheung
Yoho
Teddy Robin
Chief Inspector Robin
Karl Maka
Ah Capone
Tang Kei-Chan
Yummy
Yiu Wai
Yummy's Wife
David Wu
Capone's Dumb Thug
John Shum Kin-Fun
Piano Player in Bar
To Siu-Ming
Customer in Bar
Bolo Yeung
Brawler in Bar
Eric Tsang Chi-Wai
Popeye
Marylinn Wong Cho-Shut
Wai
JoJo Chan Kei-Kei
Mimi
Sze Kai-Keung
Robin's Assistant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Tsui Hark's second feature and part of Hong Kong's 1980s New Wave, when local filmmakers were reclaiming cinema from the Shaw Brothers studio system with faster, crazier, more contemporary stories.
Teddy Robin was already a legendary 1960s pop star before acting; his casting as the straight-man inspector was deliberate irony given his real-life rockstar persona.
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