OUR SISTER HEDY (1957) is a black-and-white comedy-drama shot in Mandarin in sync sound at the Cathay Studio in Hong Kong and stars Jeanette Lin Tsui, Julie Yeh Feng, Mu Hong and Dolly Su Feng. Dir…
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