A Great Wall Super Production

“BACHELOR'S　SON”

Producer:

DIEN YIEH

Director:

HU SIAO-FUNG

Screenplay:

OU CHAUNG

——THE STORY——

Sheng, Fu and Lee are three bachelors living in the same room of a borading-house and working for the same Import & Export Company. They are well liked by their Landlady and other Neighbours and also by their Boss and all colleagues. In fact, Sheng, the eldest of the three, is sweet on one of the latter, Miss Mah Ling, who reciprocates his feeling. But they still hesitate about marriage from various economical and other reasons.

One day, suddenly and mysteriously, these bachelors are found to have acquired a baby boy. None of the neighbourhood people knows where It comes from. Torrents of talk and speculation result into deep suspicion of some scandal. Some even try to find out links between the baby and the bachelors with an new tenant, a young woman named Lee Wei just moved in.

Lee is outraged by the extra attention; and the neighbours tend to avoid these bachelors who are unable to give a satisfactory explanation.

The bachelors are having a great deal of trouble trying to raise the baby all by themselves. Not only their inexperience causes a lot of laughable situations, but also their Boss, angry at their mysterious absences during working time one after another, specificably forbids them any more leave on pain of being dismissed. So their scheme of taking turns to sit with the baby faills utterly.

Literarily in the last ditch, unexpected help is proffered by Lee Wei, who is not outlooking for work that day. The bachelors soon discover her liking of the baby, and learn that something tragic had happened to her sometime ago causing her loss of job. They are anxious to have her taking care of the baby in the daytime, and delegates Fu to insinuate himself into her good grace and to persuade her into accepting the babysitter's job to which commission Fu is very reluctant.

Sheng's sweetheart, Mah Ling, has long been suspicious about the bachelors' nervousness and mysterious preoccupation. That day, finding Sheng again absent in the office with a lame excuse, she calls on their home unexpectedly. Sheng, nursing the baby, is caught and in the spur of moment invents some most wonderful lies in his life to escape her wrath.

Finally, Lee is persuaded by Fu to care for the baby for a while, anyway. The Bachelors are overjoyed, and planned to give a neighbourly party for celebrating the Baby's "Hundred-day” birthday. Everything is set, but at the last moment they discover the baby is missing.

Frantically they chase up all sorts of clue to all places, including an airplane up its runway. However, they fail to capture the airplane, as can be expected. Despondently, they all return with Lee Wei in bitter tears, But an unexpected turn awaits them at home, and with terrific excitement of one startling discovery after another, all mystery are finally solved and everyone including the bachelors are happy.