The Warlord (1972)

- Original title
- 大軍閥
- Directed by
- Li Han-hsiang
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a comedy film set in 1920s China where a bandit becomes a warlord through luck and bumbling. He is uneducated and arrogant leading to absurd situations like ordering cannons to fire at a dragon statue to make rain. The film follows his crude judgments and rise and fall in a satirical way.
satiricalcomedicfarcehistoricalsarcasticracymusicalperiod
What happens
,原名《大軍閥1925》,是由李翰祥執導的香港電影,於1972年8月17日首映。本片以諷刺手法,描述了北洋政府軍閥魚肉百姓的故事,也是香港男演員許冠文首部參演並主演的電影。 土匪龐大虎(許冠文飾)因幫助俄國抗擊日本而被扶持为督军山东的大軍閥。由於他好大喜功又目不識丁,常常鬧出不少笑話。 一次,北方大旱,求雨不成的他大罵龍王,命令砲兵對龍王開砲,結果竟然誤打誤撞下起雨來,他更為此沾沾自喜。 一日,他受名審理一宗強姦案;案件中,原來高家酒坊的寡婦高白氏(胡錦飾)不甘寂寞,與員工季伯常(劉丹飾)通姦,誰知被小叔子高正白(林偉圖飾)撞破姦情,故此高白氏乘機誣衊他強姦。龐大虎竟命兩名士兵在公堂上試圖強姦高白氏,看看能否成功,從而測試真偽;因為士兵無法得手,於是判斷高白氏誣陷小叔子,並把高白氏和季伯常拉出槍斃。 1928年(民國17年),中國國民黨所率領的國民革命軍北伐成功,統一全國,而日軍為破壞中國統一,支持已下野的龐大虎東山再起,不料當年曾被他無端殺死的戲班老闆(沈勞飾)之女小蘭芳(何莉莉飾)出現,為家仇國恨槍殺了這個賣國賊。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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