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Beware Of Pickpockets is a Hongkongais film of genre Comedy directed by Wu Ma with Dean Shek
Beware Of Pickpockets (1981)
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Add to a movie listBeware of Pickpockets is a 1981 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Wu Ma and starring Dean Shek, Karl Maka and Wu.
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Righteous officer Big Nose is ordered to arrest pickpocket Extra Hand. However, each time he was caught, he was released due to a lack of evidence. Although Extra Hand is a tricky man, he is actually a Robin Hood like pickpocket who steals dirty money from the rich to raise seven orphaned children that he adopted. Extra Hand plans to save money to build an orphanage for the children to live in.Actors
Dean Shek
(Pickpocket)
Karl Maka
(Big Nose Pao)
Wu Ma
(Superintendent)
Raymond Wong Pak-ming
(Dishonest diner)
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