Film

From Riches to Rags

1980 · 1h 41m · Action · Comedy

IMDb

5.4

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...

Ricky Hui Koon-Ying

Ricky

Johnny Koo Kwok-Wah

Fatso

JoJo Chan Kei-Kei

JoJo

Tong Ching

Ling

Yik Ga

Julia

Yip Ha-Lei

Doctor Mong

Lam Ching-Ying

Knife killer

Melvin Wong King-Sun

Smoking pool player

Yue Tau-Wan

Injecting killer

Tsang Choh-Lam

Chuk/Ducky [uncredited]

John Woo

[cameo]

Benz Kong To-Hoi

• John WooDirector · Writer
• Bill Wong Chung-PiuDirector of Photography

Release date

July 10, 1980

Status

Released

Original language

cn

Runtime

1h 41m

Genres

Action, Comedy