The Thirty Million Dollar Rush

The Thirty Million Dollar Rush (Chinese: 橫財三千萬) is a 1987 Hong Kong action comedy film written, produced, directed by and starring Karl Maka. The film co-stars Brigitte Lin, Paula Tsui, Eric Tsang, Lau Kar-leung, Angile Leung and Mark Cheng.

The Thirty Million Dollar Rush
Film poster
Traditional Chinese	橫財三千萬
Simplified Chinese	横财三千万
Hanyu Pinyin	Hèng Cái Sān Qiān Wàn
Jyutping	Waang4 Coi4 Saam1 Cin1 Maan6
Directed by	Karl Maka
Screenplay by	Karl Maka Wellington Fung Chang Kwok-tse
Produced by	Karl Maka
Starring	Karl Maka Brigitte Lin Paula Tsui Eric Tsang Lau Kar-leung Angile Leung Mark Cheng
Cinematography	Bob Thompson Andrew Lau
Edited by	Tony Chow Wong Ming-lam Wong Ming-kong
Music by	Alvin Kwok
Production company	Cinema City & Films Co.
Distributed by	Golden Princess Film Production
Release date	2 July 1987 (1987-07-02)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	HK$13,545,285

This is a heist film, where mint employee and his newly-formed gang scheme to steal bank notes from the mint.

Plot

Fatty (Eric Tsang) is an employee at a mint, where one day, he discovers a shredding machine that crashed for a moment before resuming its operations. Because of that moment, an amount of HK$30 million of bank notes, which were meant to be shredded, survived. Discovering this secret, Fatty conspires with his friends, Tomboy (Angile Leung) and Mark Mark Cheng), to steal the money for themselves.

Seeking for professional help, the trio join forces with Baldy (Karl Maka), an ex-con recently released from prison. While discussing their plan, they were overheard by a Catholic nun, Sister Maria (Brigitte Lin), who is determined to prevent them from committing sins in order to save their souls.

Cast

• Karl Maka as Baldy
• Brigitte Lin as Sister Maria
• Paula Tsui as Designer Fung
• Eric Tsang as Fatty
• Lau Kar-leung as Boxer Leung
• Angile Leung as Tomboy
• Mark Cheng as Mark
• Wong Ching as Inspector Chu
• John Woo as Ling's husband (cameo)
• Wong Jing as Pimp Tak (cameo)
• Amy Wu as Ling
• Chan Chi-fai as Whoremonger
• Eddie Chan as Whoremonger
• Maria Tung as TV reporter
• Chang Kwok-tse as Bicycle kiosk owner
• Joe Chu as Whoremonger
• Sai Gwa-Pau as Man in toilet
• Wellington Fung as Engineer
• Tony Chow as Fatty's assistant manager
• Garry Chan as Hawker assistant
• Ling Lai-man as Keung

Theme song

• Dream of Fortune (橫財夢)
  • Composer: Alvin Kwok
  • Lyricist: Raymond Wong
  • Singer: Samuel Hui

Reception

Critical

Andrew Saroch of Far East Films rated the film a score of three out of five stars and calls it an "enjoyable comedy mixes the familiar ingredients of fast-paced comedy, spurts of action and thin plot, alongside a cast of welcome faces" but criticizes the film for its lack of order and some over-the-top performances.

Box office

The film grossed HK$13,545,285 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 2 to 17 July 1987.

External links

• The Thirty Million Dollar Rush at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• The Thirty Million Dollar Rush at Hong Kong Cinemagic
• The Thirty Million Dollar Rush at IMDb