
Full Alert(1997)
A police inspector becomes obsessed with apprehending a criminal planning a major heist at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in the weeks leading up to Hong Kong's return to China.


Ray Lui
Dai Fu-keung

Cecilia Yip Tung
Mrs. Dai

Simon Lui Yu-Yeung
Fox

Yu Rongguang
Dumb Dog

Ben Lam Kwok-Bun
Chan Seven

Joe Cheng Cho
Prison Officer

Roy Cheung Yiu-Yeung
Chan Chung

Tenky Tin Kai-Man
Chicken Hung
Big Spender is a action, crime, thriller film released in 1999. Directed by Tony Ma Tin-Yiu, it stars Ray Lui, Cecilia Yip Tung, Simon Lui Yu-Yeung. A man and four accomplices kidnap two Hong Kong tycoons and ask for huge ransoms.
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A police inspector becomes obsessed with apprehending a criminal planning a major heist at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in the weeks leading up to Hong Kong's return to China.

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