Great Wall Movie Enterprises
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Great Wall Movie Enterprises Limited (Chinese: 長城電影製片有限公司) was Hong Kong's leading left-wing studio and one committed to making progressive Mandarin films with social content as well as entertainment value.
Unusual for Hong Kong films, some of their films were publicly shown in Maoist-era China. For the same reason, their films were banned in Taiwan.
Overview[]
In 1948, co-founded with the Great Wall Pictures Corporation. The momentum for developing a Mandarin film industry was established but Zhang and Yuan departed company when the finances and administration of Great Wall became influenced by events happening in China. Yuan stayed in the reorganised Great Wall Movie Enterprises Ltd, which became identified with left-wing tendencies.
Well known for their patriotism towards mainland China, Great Wall often collaborated with and it was the pioneer studio in the early 1950s.
Notable directors and actors[]
There are many veterans and talents from China who joined the studio. Meanwhile, many acting talents and directors are cultivated, too.
Directors:
Actors:
- (also known as Fu Qi, also director and producer)
- Hsia Moon (also known as Xia Meng, Miranda Yang, also producer)
- (石慧, also known as Shek Hwei)
- Chen Sisi
- Jiang Han
- Zhang Zheng
- Guan Shan
- Wei Wei
- Paw Hee Jing
- Zhu Hong
- Ping Fan
- Gong Qiuxia
- Liang Shan
- Betty Loh Ti
Present[]
In 1982, Great Wall merged with Feng Huang, Chung Yuen and Sun Luen Film Co. as Sil-Metropole Organisation.
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