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Re: Hero of our Time (1948)

OK, here's the automatic translation of the plot that I found on this website...

http://www.cnmdb.com/title/6383/plotsummary

You can put the Chinese text through any online automatic translation and get something similar...



Greatly spies Chen Chali to present life of the He Guangshou, investigates his/her brother He Guangcai to jump from an upper story riddle of the suicide Zha Lixie the daughter is beautiful elegantly to the broad only then office investigation, the beginning knows Guang Caishi to suffer the person to murder Zha Li suspected this document has high morals related with rich merchant Wu, thereupon beautifully sends elegant to investigate in secret The beautiful elegant track has high morals female secretary from Dong Lizhu to the train station, sees Lizhu to give a leather suitcase the mystical man Zha Li and beautiful elegantly traces the suburb log cabin, captures the leather suitcase, discovered in the box all is the counterfeit money Has high morals sees the matter to defeat, this plan to the police confessed the counterfeit money group secretly protects oneself in order to, who knows the group unexpectedly to make first move and get control, will have high morals seizes This time, beautifully elegantly obtains Lizhu's clue, pursues to , actually suffers plots against, drops the cave Fortunately looks up the ritual promptly to rush, the exposure group originally is banking circles great interest hundred Sichuan, but the police also arrive the counterfeit money group catch the whole lot in a dragnet Hundred Sichuan with has high morals dies under the bullet

Re: Re: Hero of our Time (1948)

A still picture from this film...

http://www.cnmdb.com/upload/images/title/2005/12/31/101538134_s.jpg

Re: Re: Re: Hero of our Time (1948)

I'm beginning to wonder if Xiyuan Xu made more Chan films than Roland Winters... ??? !!!

Re: Re: Re: Re: Hero of our Time (1948)

A still picture from this film...

http://www.cnmdb.com/upload/images/title/2005/12/31/101538134_s.jpg

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hero of our Time (1948)

Dear Douglas,

Thank you for this image. Anything that you can find for these Chinese productions is of value in finding out more about the "other" "lost" Charlie Chan material.

Sincerely,
Rush

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Here's the cast and crew list. I get the impression that the films in the late 1940s may have been made in Hong Kong, rather than in Shanghai.

Hero of Our Time (1948)
一代枭雄 (1948)
http://www.mtime.com/movie/47754/

Production Company:
许立斋 Xu Production Studio

Producer: 毕虎 Hu Bi

Director: 毕虎 Hu Bi

Screenwriter : 毕虎 Hu Bi

Principal actors
白燕 Yan Bai — 陈美娜 Meina
徐莘园 Ziyuan Xu — 陈查礼Charlie Chan
吕玉堃 Yukun Lu — 金百川 The Rivers
王斑 Ban Wang — 探长Detective
姜明 Ming Jiang — 吴怀德 Tunfude
鹭红 Lu Hung — 董丽珠 Donglizhu
殷秀岑 Xiucen Yin
尤光照 Guangzhao You
周文彬 Wenbing Zhou
高第安 High Resolution
廖凡 Fan Liao