An Orphan's Tragedy

An Orphan's Tragedy
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Traditional Chinese	孤 星 血淚
Simplified Chinese	孤星血泪
Literal meaning	tiny orphan, tears of blood
Hanyu Pinyin	Gū xīng xuèlèi
Jyutping	Gu1 Sing1 Hyut3 Leoi6
Directed by	Chu Kei
Screenplay by	Ching Kong Chu Kei Lau Fong
Based on	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Starring	Bruce Lee Ng Cho-fan Lau Hak-suen Josephine Siao Cheung Wood-yau
Cinematography	Suen Lun
Music by	Chow Long
Production company	Union Film Enterprise
Release date	11 February 1955 (1955-02-11)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese

An Orphan's Tragedy is a 1955 Hong Kong drama film co-written and directed by Chu Kei and starring Bruce Lee, Ng Cho-fan, Lau Hak-suen, Josephine Siao and Cheung Wood-yau. The film is a loose adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations . ^[1]

Plot

Profiteer To Chai-yan (Lau Hak-suen) framed Dickson Fan (Ng Cho-fan) for selling counterfeit medicine which led Fan to ten years of unjust imprisonment. Fan escapes prison to a rural farm where he meets teenager Frank Wong (Bruce Lee), who helps him escape arrest from the police. Later on, Fan discovers that Frank is his biological son and he finds a job outside at the provincial capital in order to earn money and anonymously pay for Frank to study medicine outside of town. Frank, not knowing that Fan is his father, believes that Fan is donating money to him out of gratitude. After graduating, Frank works at To's medical company. To has always suspected Frank to be Fan's son. In order to force Fan to come out of hiding, To frames Frank the way that he framed Fan back then. ^[2]

Cast

• Bruce Lee as child Frank Wong Fuk-wan (based on Philip Pirrip)
  • Cheung Wood-yau as adult Frank Wong Fuk-wan
• Ng Cho-fan as Dickson Fan (based on Abel Magwitch)
• Wong Cho-san as Sam Wong (based on Joe Gargery)
• Lau Hak-suen as To Chai-yan (based on Compeyson)
• Josephine Siao as child Polly/Pui-yee (based on Estella Havisham)
  • Yung Siu-yee as adult Polly/Pui-yee
• Mui Yee - Rainbow/Choi-Hung
• Chow Chi-sing as Chow
• Ko Lo-chuen as Kwai
• Lee Pang-fei as Joseph Chan
  • Wong Fei-fei as child Rainbow/Choi-hung
• Yip Ping as Mrs. Fan
• Ling Mung as Yau
• Kam Lau as Polly's mother (based on Miss Havisham)
• Cheung Sang as Village neighbor (based on Mr. Hubble)
• Chan Lap-ban as Village neighbor (based on Mrs. Hubble)
• Chu Yau-ko as Dancing at nightclub
• Yuen Lap-cheung as Pharmacy customer
• Lam Liu-ngok as To's goon
• Fung King-man as To's goon

See also

• Bruce Lee filmography

References

1. "Bruce Lee: The Early Years 1953/1955". 28 February 2008.
2. "An Orphan's Tragedy (1955)". worldfilmgeek.com. 1955. Retrieved 18 May 2021.

External links

• An Orphan's Tragedy at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• An Orphan's Tragedy at Hong Kong Cinemagic
• An Orphan's Tragedy at IMDb
• An Orphan's Tragedy at senscritique.com