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六月新娘 (1960)
The June Bride


Reviewed by: Stephe
Date: 01/27/2011

June Bride concerns three men competing for the attention of
Grace Chang. On a cruise ship, goofy would-be loverboy guitarist
Tin Ching tries to romance singer Grace Chang who is traveling to
Hong Kong to marry Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang is pals with a nightclub
songstress (who looks vaguely like Julie Yeh Feng), even though he
is engaged to Grace. Roy Chiao plays a man who we first see highly
intoxicated who is engaged to a woman who apparently may no longer be
interested in him. Seeing how drunk he is, Chiao takes pity on him
and lets him crash at his place. He then tries to set Chiao up with
his nightclub pal, but accidentally, Chiao doesn't meet the nightclub
songstress, but with Grace the songstress, instead. He gets her
drunk, and it's her first time drinking. The choreography of Grace's
drunk scene is great. It's overstated, but in a good way. Then comes
a musical dream sequence where Grace wears a bridal gown and dances
first with Zhang Yang, then Tin Ching, then Roy Chiao. When Grace
shops for a real wedding dress, her best friend turns out to be Dolly
So Fung, an actress I really like. Yay! But then Grace calls off the
wedding because she is conflicted. This film is a combination of musical
and screwball comedy, and really doesn't quite come together, but there
are many memorable moments amid the jumble. My DVD stopped and
skipped during the last minute-and-a-half of the film. Note that this glitch
might exist in all copies of the DVD: I returned mine, and the seller's
distributor replaced it with a disc that did the very same thing.

Reviewer Score: 6