From Riches to Rags

1h 41min

Action

Comedy

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...

Cast

Yik Ga

Yik Ga

Julia
Yip Ha-Lei

Yip Ha-Lei

Doctor Mong
Lam Ching-Ying

Lam Ching-Ying

Knife killer
Melvin Wong Gam-Sam

Melvin Wong Gam-Sam

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]

Release date

10th Jul 1980

Status

Released

Spoken languages

广州话 / 廣州話