"Ghost Horse Double Star" is a comedy film directed by Xu Guanwen and starring Xu Guanwen, Qiao Hong, He Baiguang, Xu Guanjie and others. The film tells the story of The Old Qian Deng Guowen who escaped the pursuit and killing in an unexpected way. The film was the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong in 1974.
Poster for the movie "Ghost Horse Double Star"
Synopsis:
This is a typical martial arts comedy film in Hong Kong in the 1970s. Old Qian Deng Guowen (Xu Guanwen) often goes in and out of prison. When he was bored in prison, he would often perform some of his own thousand tricks to relieve the boredom of the prisoners in the same warehouse. The prisoner Liu Junjie (Xu Guanjie) admires the Thousand Skills of Guowen and hopes to work with him to make a lot of money after he is released from prison. Guowen did not agree, because Lao Qian generally came and went alone.
After the two are released from prison, Junjie organizes a group of Lao Qian to bet with Guowen, and Guowen defeats them by buying the dancer Pepe who is present in the morning. Junjie admired Guowen even more and once again proposed that the two cooperate. Guowen could not withstand his stalking, and finally accepted. The two plan to attack the bully big brother in the city. In order to raise gambling funds, they also participated in the TV station's prize game, and Guowen won 12,000 yuan with his clever mind. Guowen and Junjie and the bully all started a dragon fight on the gambling game, but the plan was accidentally seen through by the tramp, and Guowen and Junjie were immediately chased and killed by the bully, and later, Guowen used unexpected methods to get out.
Stills from the movie "Ghost Horse Double Star"
Behind the scenes:
"Ghost Horse Double Star" is a Hong Kong film directed by Hui Guanwen and starring Hui Guanwen, Qiao Hong, Ho Pak Kwong, Hui Guanjie and so on.
The background of the appearance of "Ghost Horse Double Star" is that cantonese films gradually declined in the late 1960s and Chu Yuan's "Seventy-Two Tenants" broke the box office record at that time to become the hong Kong box office champion in history, on the other hand, television gradually entered every household and was familiar to Hong Kong people, plus gambling was a normal daily life of Hong Kong people at that time, and Hui Guanwen and his brother Hui Guanjie created "Ghost Horse Double Star" by the comedy program "Double Star Annunciation" hosted by TVB, plus various jokes. The film's dense jokes make the audience feel good, and the gamble is very close to real life, not to mention, compared with the previous Hong Kong movies that often portray gamblers as sinners/bad guys, although the Hui brothers in "Ghost Horse Double Star" are also good at gambling, the mentality of "winning and laughing, losing all and making a celebration" (the theme song of the film) is the game's human ease. (Gambling, which also appeared in Xu Guanwen's later "Deed of Sale", is only a game with the help of TV prize quizzes.) ）