From Riches to Rags

From Riches to Rags

1980
1h 41m
4.0

4.0/10

6 votes • View on IMDb
Overview

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...

Status: Released

Language: CN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Orange Sky Golden Harvest
Production Countries
Hong Kong
Spoken Languages
Cantonese

Quick Facts

Original Title 錢作怪
Release Date July 10, 1980
Status Released
Language CN
IMDb ID tt0076580

Cast

Ricky Hui Koon-Ying
Ricky Hui Koon-Ying

Ricky

Johnny Koo Kwok-Wah
Johnny Koo Kwok-Wah

Fatso

JoJo Chan Kei-Kei
JoJo Chan Kei-Kei

JoJo

Tong Ching
Tong Ching

Ling

Yik Ga
Yik Ga

Julia

Yip Ha-Lei
Yip Ha-Lei

Doctor Mong

Lam Ching-Ying
Lam Ching-Ying

Knife killer

Melvin Wong
Melvin Wong

Smoking pool player

Yue Tau-Wan
Yue Tau-Wan

Injecting killer

Tsang Choh-Lam
Tsang Choh-Lam

Chuk/Ducky [uncredited]

John Woo
John Woo

[cameo]

Benz Kong To-Hoi
Benz Kong To-Hoi

Key Crew

John Woo
Director
John Woo
Writer

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