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Love Follows Fortune

Love Follows Fortune

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Comedy

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Impoverished scholar Leung (Yam Kim-fai) became a widower and his in-laws give him 30 taels of silver to find a new wife. He gives the money away to help an old man, a kindness witnessed by the young woman To (Fong Yim-fun), who is impressed and smitten. Needing to introduce his ‘new wife' to the in-laws, Leung seeks help from his cousin (Tam Sin-hung), whose husband Wong (Poon Yat On) had just bought To as maid, lusting after her. The cousin loans the maid to pose as Leung's wife but the jealous Wong poses as their servant to keep watch, creating hilarious havoc that fails to hinder the love developing between the scholar and the maid.

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Status

Released

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Runtime

89 mins

Rating

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Release Date

07 February 1959

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Cast

Fong Yim-Fen

Fong Yim-Fen

To Yin-yeung

Yam Kim-Fai

Yam Kim-Fai

Leung Guang-luk

Poon Yat-On

Poon Yat-On

Wong Dor-fuk

Tam Sin-Hung

Tam Sin-Hung

Mrs Wong

Cheung Sing-Fei

Cheung Sing-Fei

Mr Lam

Lee Pang-Fei

Lee Pang-Fei

Uncle Chung

Chan Pei-Mui

Chan Pei-Mui

Madame Lam

Cheung Sang

Cheung Sang

To's father

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