Informer (1980)

Original title

金手指

Directed by

Wong Chung

Genre

thriller film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After a police informant is murdered, the police recruit the victim's friend to go undercover in a gang. He agrees in order to seek revenge, but the criminal mastermind is not who he expects.

tensegrittysuspensefulmelancholicbleaknoirishsombervisceral

What happens

《金手指》（）是由王钟自编自导自演的粤语惊悚片，由邵氏兄弟公司制作并于1980年5月10日在香港上映。 这部电影是王钟的导演处女作，并创造200万港元的香港票房。 警方線人啞巴被殺害，於是警方聯繫啞巴好友修，試圖說服他接替啞巴的臥底職責。修為替啞巴報仇而承諾為警方臥底黑幫。在協助警方追查幕後黑手的時候，犯罪集團首腦卻另有他人。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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