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From Riches to Rags

Jul 10, 1980 · 1h 41m
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Comedy

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Ricky and Fatso are friends in need. They are in dire need of money since they are only paid slave wages at the bottling factory. However, they become millionaires overnight after buying a winning lottery ticket. During one of their swingin' nights on the town, Ricky is suddenly attacked by an upset stomach; and in no time, a quack doctor diagnoses the seizure as terminal cancer. Ricky seriously considers suicide. But he is appalled by the drawbacks inherent in the available methods of doing himself in--primarily the pain! It is on a rooftop from which he is supposed to make a plunge that he saves a poor man from suicide by giving the latter all the money he has. In gratitude, the newly rich man promises to hire a killer to finish off his suffering benefactor...

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CAST

Ricky Hui Koon-Ying
Ricky
Johnny Koo Kwok-Wah
Fatso
JoJo Chan Kei-Kei
JoJo
Tong Ching
Ling
Yik Ga
Julia
Yip Ha-Lei
Doctor Mong
Lam Ching-Ying
Knife killer
Melvin Wong King-Sun
Smoking pool player
Directed by John Woo

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Status
Released
Original language
CN
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Production
Orange Sky Golden Harvest
Country
HK
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