Security Unlimited
Film poster
Traditional Chinese摩登保鑣
Simplified Chinese摩登保镖
Hanyu PinyinMódēng Bǎobiāo
JyutpingMo1 dang1 bou2 biu1
Directed byMichael Hui
Written byMichael Hui
Samuel Hui
Produced byRaymond Chow
StarringSamuel Hui
Michael Hui
Ricky Hui
Marylinn Wong
Stanley Fung
Chan Sing
CinematographyCheung Yiu-cho
Tom Lau
Edited byPeter Cheung
Music bySamuel Hui
Production
companies
Golden Harvest
Hui Brothers Films
Distributed byGolden Harvest
Release date
  • 30 January 1981 (1981-01-30)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$18 million[1]

Security Unlimited (Chinese: 摩登保鑣) is a 1981 Hong Kong comedy film directed by and starring Michael Hui and co-starring his brothers Samuel Hui and Ricky Hui, who are known as the Hui Brothers. Michael Hui was awarded Best Actor 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

Cast Role
Samuel HuiLieutenant Sam
Michael HuiChow Sai-cheung
Ricky HuiBruce Tang Siu-lung
Marylinn WongChun
Stanley FungFan
Arnis HasiSylvester
Chan SingRobber gang thief
Hoi Sang LeeRobber with pump-gun
David CheungRobber with harpoon
Yue Tau-wanCrossed-eye robber
Kobe WongRobber knowing melody
Hui Sai-cheungWong Security boss
Ray CordeiroHorse race trickster
Joe JuniorSniper with ice bullets
Tsang Choh-lamFake corpse
Lau Hak-suenTaipan Law
Wong ManTaipan Law's wife
RoksShip party moderator
Wong Chik-samSergeant
Danny AuThief in factory
Fung FungDriving examiner
Tang Mei-mei
Bill TungRace course commentator
Hung Leung-sekRace course commentator
Tong SiRobbed bak employee
Albert CheungKidney thief
Maria ChungShip party guest
Fung Shui-chun
Tse Hon-san
Man Nga-tik
Sek Ngai-wan
Leung Shu-wing
Ng Man-lei

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 HK$18 million.[1] It also became the highest-grossing film of all-time in Singapore with a gross of S$1.4 million.[2]

Accolades

Accolades
Ceremony Category Recipient Outcome
1st Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor Michael Hui Won

Album

Security Unlimited
摩登保鑣
Studio album by
Samuel Hui
ReleasedMarch 1981 (1981-03)
GenreCantopop
LanguageCantonese
LabelPolyGram
Samuel Hui chronology
Nim Fei Giu
念奴嬌
(1980)		 Security Unlimited
摩登保鑣
(1981)		 Cannot Forget You‧Paper Boat
難忘您‧紙船
(1982)

Security Unlimited is Samuel Hui's eighth Cantopop album with the title track being the film's theme song.

Track listing

  1. "摩登保鑣"
  2. "印象"
  3. "扮野"
  4. "笑下就算"
  5. "長春不老"
  6. "我的心仍屬於您"
  7. "恭喜！恭喜！"
  8. "人辦"
  9. "陽光"
  10. "甜蜜的往事"
  11. "歌曲解困憂"
  12. "我問"

References

  1. 1 2 Cowie, Peter (1982). International Film Guide. Tantivy Press. p. 157. ISBN 9780498025686. Almost by rote, Michael Hui's new comedy Security Unlimited (Mo-teng pao-piao), about a group of security officers, climbed to the top of the box-office charts, grossing HK$18,000,000 with ease.
  2. ↑ "'Shaolin Temple' Champ of Singapore's Box Office". Variety. 20 October 1982. p. 229.
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