MAMBO GIRL

1957 Mandarin B/W 92mins
Director : Yi Wen / Cast : Ge Lan, Chen Hou
Li Kailing is a high school student, nicknamed "the Mambo Girl" for her gifted talent in music and dance. Kailing does not suspect anything although no one else in her family seems to have such talents. In fact, she is regarded very lucky by many, for she has a doting father, a loving mother and an adorable younger sister. Just before her twentieth birthday, Kailing discovers in great shock that she is adopted and sets out in search of her birth mother.

AIR HOSTESS

1958 Mandarin Colour 107mins
Director : Yi Wen / Cast : Ge Lan, Qiao Hong
A romatic drama and comedy which follows the lives of three air stewardesses through air hostess school, on-the-job adventures and their daunting search for husbands. Shot in an era when air travel has just started to become popular in Asia and being an air hostess promises much glamour and opportunities for a better life. Audiences will be charmed by scenes of different Asian cities in the late fifties as well as some memorable musical numbers from the ever vivacious Ge Lan.

CINDERELLA AND HER LITTLE ANGELS

1959 Mandarin B/W 96mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Lin Dai, Chen Hou
Lin Fu, an employee of a fashion house, has great admiration for Wang Danning, an orphan girl. He invites her to model at a fashion show. Danning accepts the offer without the approval of the Matron, hoping to use the money to repair the dilapidated orphanage. The Matron rejects the money and threatens to expel Danning. One stormy night, the alert Danning raises the alarm and manages to save her fellow orphans from the collapsing building.

SPRING SONG

1959 Mandarin B/W 103mins
Director : Yi Wen / Cast : Ge Lan, Lin Cui
Two celebrity students fight for fame, recognition and guys. One is talented in song and dance while the other in sports. When their brawl is finally resolved and misunderstandings put aside, they realise that they actually have much in common and become fast friends.

THE WILD WILD ROSE

1960 Mandarin B/W 124mins
Director : Wang Tianlin / Cast : Ge Lan, Zhang Yang
This musical noir casts a temptress, Wild Rose with a heart of gold, striking an alluring balance between music, benefaction and seduction of an engaged man. The poor sap is Hanhua, a music teacher turned piano lizard who, upon being seduced, deteriorates into a murderous drunk.

IT’S ALWAYS SPRING

1962 Mandarin B/W 98mins
Director : Yi Wen / Cast : Ye Feng, Li Mei
Xu Zhaofeng offers Li Ailian, a top Singapore songstress a job to sing in his nightclub. On hearing this, Tao Haiyin, Hong Kong's queen of songs insists that she be hired as well. Tension builds up between the two songstresses, who later reconcile after their differences have been settled. Zhaofeng takes the opportunity to propose to Haiyin and she accepts. To celebrate the wedding, Ailian and Haiyin jointly give a song and dance performance to the applause of the many guests present.

BECAUSE OF HER

1963 Mandarin Colour 101mins
Director : Yi Wen, Wang Tianlin / Cast : Ge Lan, Lei Zhen
Li Meixin rejects Du Ziping's marriage proposal on the eve of Du's departure to further his studies in Japan. Li joins a travelling troupe under Jin Shiming and becomes a success overnight. While performing in Singapore, Li discovers she is pregnant. For the sake of Li and the unborn child, Jin
marries Li. Due to financial losses, Jin's troupe is disbanded. Du returns from Japan and is invited to play the male lead opposite Li in a new troupe. Caught in a dilemma, Li dies in a fall while running away from Du.

MAD ABOUT MUSIC

1963 Mandarin Colour 78mins
Director : Yi Wen / Cast : Yi Guang, Ye Feng
After witnessing a murder in the nightclub where they work, showgirls Bai Lihong and Lin Yanfei hide in a school. A student mistakes them for performers in a fund-raising show but their true identities are soon discovered. To dodge the killer, they accept the invitation of one of the students to stay at her home. While helping the students in one of their charity shows, they spot the killer among the audience and manage to overpower him with the students' help.

COSMOPOLITAN FANTASY (aka City Fantasy)

1964 Mandarin Colour 89mins
Director : Wu Jiaxiang / Cast : Yi Guang, Zhang Yang
Chen and Yuan are tour guides who has lent the company's funds to a colleague who claims to need it for an emergency but instead has gambled the money away. To hide from their boss, Chen and Yuan check into a hotel using pseudonyms and claim that they are from Singapore. Meanwhile, the head of the Jin Organisation comes from Singapore secretly to inspect his operations in Hong Kong. His local general manager Mr Wei is afraid that his corrupt practices may be exposed and decides to track Mr Jin's whereabouts. Chen, a dead-ringer for Mr Jin, is mistaken for him.

NO TIME FOR LOVE

1968 Mandarin Colour 88mins
Director : Tang Huang / Cast : Lin Cui, Chen Hou
Ding Dawei, a wealthy and famous man wins the hand of Laura from a very powerful Indian prince. In an attempt to get first hand information, reporter Bai disguises herself as a maid and infiltrates Ding's residence. Meanwhile, the Indian prince tracks Ding to Hong Kong. In order to avoid the Indian prince, Ding and Laura move out of their house only to end up staying in the same hotel as the Indian prince.

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