What Price Honesty?
6.813
8 Reviews
1981
1h 29min
Police corruption is the theme of this brutal harbinger of the bleak "new wave" crime thriller. Pai Piao, Danny Lee, and "Venom" Sun Chien star as idealistic police school graduates who run afoul of such vicious, murderous depravity that the cop who is killed first could be considered the lucky one.
Storyline
Police corruption is the theme of this brutal harbinger of the bleak "new wave" crime thriller. Pai Piao, Danny Lee, and "Venom" Sun Chien star as idealistic police school graduates who run afoul of such vicious, murderous depravity that the cop who is killed first could be considered the lucky one.
Released
31 December 1981
Runtime
1h 29min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
Mandarin
Production
Shaw Brothers
Cast
Jason Pai Piao
He Zhong Heng
Sun Chien
Luo Zhang
Danny Lee Sau-Yin
Ying Hao
Lily Li
Ying Hao's wife
Lo Lieh
Sun Long
Yang Chi-Ching
Lord Huang, envoy
Chiang Nan
Lord Ge, magistrate
Keung Hon
Chief Liu
Chan Shen
Fifth Master
Wong Ching-Ho
Bank customer (uncredited)
Lam Sau-Kwan
Xiu Lian
Ting Tung
Prison guard
Mama Hung
Brothel madam
Hung San-Nam
Constable
Ailen Sit Chun-Wai
Constable
Brandy Yuen Jan-Yeung
Prisoner/Prison guard
Ngai Tim-Choi
Prisoner
Sai Gwa-Pau
Bank teller (uncredited)
Gam Tin-Chue
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Yuen Yat-Choh
(uncredited)
Lo Wai
(uncredited)
Lee Fat-Yuen
(uncredited)
Chow Kin-Ping
(uncredited)
Wong Siu-Ming
(uncredited)
Ho Chi-Wai
(uncredited)
Tong Yuk-Cheung
(uncredited)
Tang Wing-Siu
(uncredited)
Yiu Man-Kei
(uncredited)
Siu Tak-Foo
(uncredited)
Chow Gam-Hoi
(uncredited)
Tong Pau-Chung
(uncredited)
Yuen Lung-Kui
(uncredited)
Lai Sau-Kit
(uncredited)
Lung Ying
(uncredited)
Yeung Kim-Man
(uncredited)
Cheung Bing-Chan
(uncredited)
Sham Chin-Bo
(uncredited)
Cheng Wai-Ching
(uncredited)
Wong Wai-Fong
(uncredited)
Chan Leung
(uncredited)
Au Chi-Hung
(uncredited)
Chan Hung
(uncredited)
Fung Ming
(uncredited)
Tai Kwan-Tak
(uncredited)
To Wing-Leung
(uncredited)
Kwan Yan
(uncredited)
Wong Kung-Miu
(uncredited)
Lui Tat
(uncredited)
Lau Chun
(uncredited)
Lai Sing-Chiu
(uncredited)
Cho Kin
(uncredited)
Got Ping
(uncredited)
Man Man
(uncredited)
Lam Tit-Ching
(uncredited)
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