[Hong Kong production filmed in Malaya and Singapore with a Filipino director. Mandarin title Xing Dao Fang Zong/星島芳蹤. Hong Kong release date 29th April 1959]
Director Rolf Bayer Screenwriter Ralph P. Modder Producer Runde Shaw
Cast Sek Ying*, Paul Chang Chung, Hung Bo [Po Hung**], Liu Liang-Hua [Liang Hua Liu], Lee Wan-Chung [Yunzhong Li], Bai Ge, Yang Wen-Kai, Liu Kei, Erh Chun, Lau Yan-Kit, Mali'anni
*English spelling of Mandarin names from the Hong Kong Movie Database
**Spelling from the Internet Movie Database
SYNOPSIS A young woman, Ling Huei, is used by a trafficker, Huang De, but she ends up in join instead of him. Upon her release six years later, she meets a doctor, Du Sen, who asks her to move to Singapore with him. But Huang De tracks her down and asks her to start trafficking again. [Raphael Millet, Singapore Cinema, Singapore, Editions Didier Millet, 2006]
NOTES by Andrew Leavold: A Shaw Brothers drug-themed crime thriller filmed in Malaya, currently considered lost - though its classy and evocative theme song is available on Youtube. Directed by Rolf Bayer, who had previously written the screenplay for Shaw Brothers' Filipino co-production Badjao (1957) and directed Azimat/"Talisman"/Tatak Ni Solomon: Seal Of Solomon (1958) for their Singapore company Malay Films. The screenplay was written by Singapore-based journalist Ralph P. Modder.
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