''Security Unlimited'' (Chinese: 摩登保鑣) is a 1981 Hong Kong

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by and starring

Michael Hui Michael Hui Koon-man (born ; 3 September 1942) (also known as Mr Boo!) is a Hong Kong actor, comedian, scriptwriter and director. He is the eldest of the four Hui brothers (together with Ricky, Sam, and Stanley) who were prominent figures in ...

and co-starring his brothers

Samuel Hui Samuel Hui Koon-kit (born 6 September 1948), usually known as Sam Hui, is a Hong Kong musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He is credited with popularising Cantopop both via the infusion of Western-style music and his usage of vernacular Cantone ...

and

Ricky Hui Ricky Hui Kwun-ying (3 August 1946 – 8 November 2011) was a Hong Kong actor and singer. He along with his brothers, Michael and Sam, made several comedy blockbusters in the 1970s and 1980s. Biography Ricky Hui Kun-ying was born 3 August ...

, who are known as the Hui Brothers. Michael Hui was awarded

Best Actor Best Actor is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actors in a film, television series, television film or play. The term most often refers to th ...

at the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards, making him the first ever recipient for the award.

Plot

Chow Sai-cheung (Michael Hui), a bitter supervisor of a Hong Kong private security company, teaches unusual guard tactics to new recruits such as electric mats, parachuting off burning buildings and counter-attacking gunfire. He was secretly observed by his new boss (Stanley Fung) and Sylvester (Arnis Hasi), unimpressed by his work, the new boss demotes Chow and promotes Chow's assistant Sam (Samuel Hui). Under the leadership of Sam, Chow and new recruit Bruce Tang (Ricky Hui) encounter a slew of misadventures, including pursuing stowaways on a party boat. Bruce ultimately falls in love with one of the stowaways. Finally, they all get entangled in a plot to steal one of China's most prized treasures on display in Hong Kong, and in a plot involving some missing government money that the security officers were guarding.

Cast

Box office

The film was the biggest grossing of the Hui Brothers comedies and became the biggest grossing film of all-time in Hong Kong with . It also became the highest-grossing film of all-time in Singapore with a gross of S$1.4 million.

Accolades

Album

''Security Unlimited'' is

's eighth

Cantopop Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...

album with the title track being the film's theme song.

Track listing

#"摩登保鑣" #"印象" #"扮野" #"笑下就算" #"長春不老" #"我的心仍屬於您" #"恭喜！恭喜！" #"人辦" #"陽光" #"甜蜜的往事" #"歌曲解困憂" #"我問"

References

External links

* * {{Michael Hui 1981 films 1981 comedy films Hong Kong slapstick comedy films 1980s Cantonese-language films Films directed by Michael Hui Golden Harvest films Films set in Hong Kong Films shot in Hong Kong 1980s Hong Kong films