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¥¢»î³½ (1951)
The Scatterbrain


Reviewed by: dleedlee
Date: 08/18/2004

An entertaining and daffy comedy.

Two young women get fired from their night club jobs. One, Cheng Yi, is a singer, the other, Wong Fa, is a cigarette girl. Cheng Yi (Hung Cheuk) is also a single mother with a young baby who lives together with Wong Fa (Tsang Nam-Sze). To make ends meet they pose as rich girls from San Francisco looking for husbands and place a newspaper ad looking for suitors. Tau-Wan, a scatterbrain, and his pal Sek Ban (Auyeng Kim), a lowly office clerk, pose as rich suitors to help stave off Sek Ban’s boss’ creditors.

There’s much to enjoy in this movie: Tau-Wan (Tang Kei-Chen) as he sows confusion, the dentist scene that reminded me of W.C. Fields, the parade of cheongsams that the women wear stand out even in black and white, the word play when three suitors (one of them Sai Gwa Pau) come a-courtin’.

Reviewer Score: 7