"Ladies First"
(Synopsis)
Chen Liu-chin (Jeanette Lin Tsui) and Chang Li-hung (Christine Pai Lu-ming), both just twenty and in a hurry, come to almost deserted Repulse Bay figuring on hooking something early this year.
Wang Shu (Roy Chiao Hung) and Li Jung (Tien Ching), both young and also in a hurry, arrive at the beach with the same idea. Soon they're exchanging glances with the girls and then telephone numbers.
From Repulse Bay Li-hung brings Liu-chin home to compare notes. There in the privacy of her room Li-hung owns up that she fancies Li Jung while Liu-chin admits that she has taken a shine to Wang Shu.
Wang is employed in the Four Square Company. One day, by order of Manager Lin (Kao Yuan), Wang delivers a batch of ladies' fountain pens to the home of a relative of his, who turns out to be Liu-chin's mother, Mrs. Chen (Wang Lai). When Wang meets Liu-chin there, he feels ill at ease because Li Jung bragged to her that Wang was the manager of Four Square Company,
Nevertheless, Liu-chin gives him all the chance to be alone with her. But he asks her to arrange a date with Li-hung for him. Hurt, Liu-Chin throws him out. Thereafter, work for him in the office becomes an endless chain of back-breaking chores.
Li Jung is salesman for Snow White soap flakes. One day, he brings some sample to see Chang Yu-cheng (Chen Yu-hsin), the owner of several laundry shops. There he meets Li-hung, who is Chang's daughter. He asks her to give Liu-chin his regards and is forthwith sent away by a jealous Li-hung.
At their wit's end, Wang Shu and Li Jung phone Liu-chin and a double date is arranged for the following weekend with Li-hung completing the foursome. But on the night of the double date, neither can Wang get anywhere with Li-hung nor Li with Liu-chin.
Next Wang is tricked into going out on a date with Liu-chin and Li is likewise tricked into going out with Li-hung. Naturally the boys are a little peeved, to put it mildly. And to get even with the girls, they date them and go nightclubbing with them.
Their plan is first to make the girls drunk. So they arrange with a waiter (Chiang Kuang-chao) to fill the glasses of the girls with liquor while they are dancing. However, this is seen by Li-hung who informs Liu-chin and the two secretly switch glasses with their partners.
After three glasses of this, Wang escorts Li-hung and Li brings Liu-chin to the hotel upstairs to carry out the second part of their plan. But the girls also have a card up their sleeve. In the end it's Liu-chin who traps Wang Shu with the aid of her mother and Manager Lin, and Li-hung who ensnares Li Jung with the timely intervention of her parents.
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