Reviewed by: Stephe Date: 02/13/2015 Summary: synopsis online There is a synopsis at http://hksan.net/smsifc/youminweb/THL_E.html From Chang Cheh: A Memoir; Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archive; January 2004; p. 167. ISBN: 962-8050-26-5 Tragic Melody (Taohua Lei) 1960 / Mandarin / B&W / Contemporary / Melodramatic Tragedy / 115 min Prod Co: Qiaoguang | Dist: MP & GI | Exe Prod: Zheng Tianshi | Dir: Lo Wei | Prod: Mao Lu | Asst Dir: Wang Ping | Scr: He Guan (aka Chang Cheh) | Pho: Ho Look-ying | Ed: Keung Hing-lung | Music: Lee Yee-chi | Cast: Lucilla You Min, Lo Wei, Kelly Lai Chen, Ouyang Shafei, Chen Youxin, Li Kun, Mi Renqing and Chiang Kuang-chao. Notes: (1) Lucilla You Min performs in Peking opera highlights playing the characters of great Chinese women, including Mu Guiying, Concubine Yu, Yang Guifei, and Dou E. (2) Loosely based on the American film Interrupted Melody (1955). (3) Qiaoguang was credited as the production company in advertisements of the time, but Jincheng is credited on visual materials in existence. From http://changcheh.0catch.com/chchfilm.htm#wrote : Tragic Melody / Taohua Lei (1960) [Qiaoguang, then Jincheng; distrib. by MP&GI]-- directed by Lo Wei, from a script by He Guan (a pseudonym Chang Cheh used mostly for film reviewing)