Movie queen Ivy Ling Po is ideally cast as a male scholar in this historical Huangmei Opera romance. It’s a tragic love story between the scholar and a local beauty (played by Fang Ying). He polishes mirrors as a pretext to get closer to his love, who signals her approval by tossing him a bunch of lichees. From that point on the course of true love proves operatically rocky, complete with murder and suicide.

• Shaw Brothers
• Ivy Ling Po
• Fang Ying
• Alison Chang Yen
• Lee Ying
• Ou-Yang Sha-Fei
• Lydia Shum Tin-Ha
• Pang Pang
• Lui Ming