The Detective (1966)
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...
Cast
Patrick Tse Yin
Chan Kin-chau
Chow Chung
Ng Ying-lin
Wong Wai
Police Sergeant/ Cheung Yu-shing
Sek Kin
Wu Him
Helena Law Lan
Mrs Wu
Seung-Goon Yuk
Ho Pui-lan
Ai Tong-Kua
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
Ho Pak-Kwong
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