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The Last Message
1975 Hong Kong film by Michael Hui From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Last Message (Chinese: 天才與白痴) is a 1975 Hong Kong comedy film directed by and starring Michael Hui, and co-starring Samuel Hui, with a cameo appearance by Ricky Hui. This is the second film of the Hui Brothers.
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Plot
Tim (Michael Hui) and Lee (Samuel Hui) are employees of a mental hospital working as an orderly and nurse respectively. One day a crazy man named Cheng Ming (Roy Chiao) is institutionalized who carries a bag of trash. Tim and Lee discover that the bag is full of artifacts from the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, they are all broken pieces and cannot be traded for money. Then, Cheng talks about a Princess and Tim and Lee figure that Cheng knows where are the artifacts from. Later on, Cheng dies from heart attack and Tim and Lee find Princess (Eileen Humphreys) and find out that she is Cheng's daughter. Princess tells them that her father discovered a sunk boat at the coast of Hong Kong. Tim and Lee starts to plan for their luxurious life, including quitting their jobs, and set out to find the artifacts. They do discover tons of it and brings it to trade for money. However, the ones Tim and Lee find are revealed to be fakes. With their fancy of luxury over, Lee gets his job back and Tim got insane and became a mental patient.
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Cast
- Michael Hui as Tim
- Samuel Hui as Nurse Lee
- Ricky Hui as waiter on skate
- James Tien as traffic cop
- Roy Chiao as Cheng Ming
- Ray Cordeiro as Policeman
- Dean Shek as hotel clerk
- Eileen Humphreys as Princess
- Lau Yat-fan as Police Chief
- Chiang Nan as antique dealer
- Siu Kam as Arab bodyguard
- Wong Sam as Dr. Wong
- Fung Ngai as Mr. Chow
- Joseph Koo as doctor in operation
- Tsang Cho-lam as schizo, Chan Keung
- Hao Li-jen as mental patient, dies in bed
- Ho Pak-kwong as hospital attendant with crabs and frogs
- Ching Siu-tung as student scuba diver
- Fung King-man as mental patient, Barbitone
- Kam Lau as Tim's mother
- Chu Yau-ko as mental patient, eating disorder
- Sai Gwa-Pau as mental patient, likes death
- Hong Ka-yan as Nurse
- To Sam-ku as Ms. Chow
- The Lotus as band
- Luk Chin as Catholic priest at hospital
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Partial soundtrack
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Tin choi yu bak chi (天才與白痴) is an album by Samuel Hui, released in 1975 by Polydor Records in Hong Kong. The first four tracks of the album are heard in the film.
Notes
- Rendition of the 1963 song "What Will Mary Say" by Johnny Mathis
- Rendition of the 1970 song "Stay Awhile" by The Bells
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