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The Last Message is a Hongkongais film of genre Comedy directed by Michael Hui with Michael Hui
The Last Message (1975)
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Add to a movie listThe Last Message is a 1975 Hong Kong comedy film directed by and starring Michael Hui and co-starring Samuel Hui and a cameo appearance by Ricky Hui. This is the second film of the Hui Brothers.
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Tim (Michael Hui) and Lee (Samuel Hui) are emloyees of a mental hospital working as an orderly and nurse respectively. One day a crazy man named Cheng Ming (Roy Chiao) is institutionalized who carries a bag of trash. Tim and Lee discover that the bag is full of artifacts from the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately they are all broken pieces and cannot be traded for money. Then Chiang talks about a Princess and Tim and Lee figure that Cheng knows where are the artifacts from. Later on, Cheng dies from heart attack and Tim and Lee find Princess (Eileen Humphreys) and find out that she is Cheng's daughter. Princess tells them that her father discovered a sunk boat at the coast of Hong Kong. Tim and Lee starts to plan for their luxurious life, including quitting their jobs, and set out to find the artifacts. They do discover tons of it and brings it to trade for money. However, the ones Tim and Lee find are revealed to be fakes. With their dreams of luxury over, Lee gets his job back and Tim got insane and became a mental patient.Actors
Michael Hui
(Ah Tim)
Roy Chiao
(Mr. Chiang Wo)
Ricky Hui
(waiter on skates)
James Tien
(traffic policeman)
Dean Shek
(hotel clerk)
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