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What Price Honesty?

What Price Honesty?

1981•1h 29m•6.4/10
Action

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6.4/10(7)

Police corruption is the theme of this brutal harbinger of the bleak "new wave" crime thriller. Pai Piao, Danny Lee, and "Venom" Sun Chien star as idealistic police school graduates who run afoul of such vicious, murderous depravity that the cop who is killed first could be considered the lucky one.

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Production

Shaw Brothers

Language

ZH

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Jason Pai Piao

Jason Pai Piao

He Zhong Heng

Sun Chien

Sun Chien

Luo Zhang

Danny Lee Sau-Yin

Danny Lee Sau-Yin

Ying Hao

Lily Li

Lily Li

Ying Hao's wife

Lo Lieh

Lo Lieh

Sun Long

Yang Chi-Ching

Yang Chi-Ching

Lord Huang, envoy

Chiang Nan

Chiang Nan

Lord Ge, magistrate

Keung Hon

Keung Hon

Chief Liu

Chan Shen

Chan Shen

Fifth Master

Wong Ching-Ho

Wong Ching-Ho

Bank customer

Lam Sau-Kwan

Lam Sau-Kwan

Xiu Lian

Ting Tung

Ting Tung

Prison guard

Mama Hung

Mama Hung

Brothel madam

Hung San-Nam

Constable

Ailen Sit Chun-Wai

Ailen Sit Chun-Wai

Constable

Brandy Yuen Jan-Yeung

Brandy Yuen Jan-Yeung

Prisoner/Prison guard

Ngai Tim-Choi

Ngai Tim-Choi

Prisoner

Sai Gwa-Pau

Sai Gwa-Pau

Bank teller

Gam Tin-Chue

Gam Tin-Chue

Shopkeeper

Yuen Yat-Choh

Yuen Yat-Choh

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