Orioles Banished from the Flowers

Among the many filmmakers who immigrated to Hong Kong after WWII was theater tycoon Jiang Boying who established the company Great China in 1946 inviting fellow migrants to work on the first postwar Mandarin films of Hong Kong Their hearts still anchored in Shanghai they made films catered to the mainland market with production modes of the former glory days Fan Peilin a virtuoso in musicals was invited south to make Orioles Banished from the Flowers dying in the crash of the returning flight The only two films Fan made in Hong Kongthe other one Song of the Songstressare thus his last Both star the singingacting superstar Zhou Xuan In this MusCommusical comedyZhou plays not the hapless songstress but a vivacious willful youngster rollicking between a young man and his girlfriend resulting in a series of embarrassing but amusing situations A remarkable sample of transplanted Shanghaistyle entertainment Hong Kong Film Archive