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人海孤鴻 (1960)
The Orphan
Origin: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese 
Genre: Drama 
Release Date (HK): 03/03/1960
 
Director
  Lee Sun-Fung
 
Screenwriter
  Ng Cho-Fan
 
Producer
  Ng Cho-Fan
 
 
Cast
  Ng Cho-Fan ... Headmaster Ho See Kei
  Pak Yin ... Teacher Su
  Bruce Lee Siu-Lung ... Ah Sam
  Lee Pang-Fei ... Mr. Cheung
  Ko Lo-Chuen    
  Fung Fung ... Big Brother
  Lee Yuet-Ching    
  Lee Siu-Hung (3)    
  Lam Liu-Ngok    
  Ng Tung    
  Chan Wai-Yue    
  Wong Hon (2)    
  Go Chiu    
  Cheung Chi-Suen    
  Yeung Kong    
 
Production Company
  Hwa Lien
 
Assistant Director
  Yeung Kong
 
Script Supervisor
  Tam Neng
 
Cinematographers
  Suen Lun   Yuen Chang-Sam   Tsak Tong
 
Lighting
  Fei Guan-Qing
 
Art Director
  Leung Chi-Hing
 
Makeup
  Lai Siu-Wah
 
Editor
  Kwok Keung
 
Sound Recordist
  Gu Zhi-Ang
 
Filming Location
  Hong Kong
 
 
Summary
  Originally shot in color.

From Senses of Cinema:

The Orphan (1959/60) was produced by the late Hong Kong actor/producer, Ng Chor-fan (1911 - 1993), a much loved and enduring figure in the history of Cantonese cinema. Mr. Ng's last quest was to find the colour original of his long-lost The Orphan. Sadly, he died a disappointed man, close to the time when the HKFA formally began. The film starred 18 year old Bruce Lee as a HK rebel without a cause just before he quit HK for the US - the standard starting point of Bruce Lee biographies. In 1994, Cynthia Liu Chu-fun - then, as now, HKFA's Senior Manager - was in London searching through laboratories on the off-chance that old negatives of HK films had been stored and forgotten there. At Rank Laboratories, she was immediately handed about ten of them, mostly from the '50s or '60s, among them the long-sought The Orphan! Rank simply gave her the negatives, most of them in mint condition. "They did it without charging me a penny," she recalls. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Hong Kong had no technology for developing colour films so colour negatives were processed in either Japan or London, and sometimes remained there. "That's how we found Bruce Lee's The Orphan," says Ms Liu. "The negative was just there and nobody realised. I am sure there are HK films everywhere all over the world." It was a major break for the then year-old Archive, housed at the time in a temporary hut in Eastern Tsim Sha Tsui.