The Detective (1966)

0.0/10 101 min Mystery

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

Waiter

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