The 1962 film It's Always Spring was my first experience
with the Cathay Studio because I am a Chang Cheh collector and
he wrote the script with some help from the film's director.
(This is the only Cathay film with a Chang Cheh script available
on disc, by the way, because he provided only script doctoring
for Death Traps.) I was immediately smitten by its star, Julie
Yeh Feng, who is apparently considered to be Hong Kong's answer
to Kim Novak, and intrigued by her co-star, the reserved yet
smoldering Helen Li Mei, who had worked with Chang Cheh on His
Cruel Heart in 1956 and on Wild Fire in 1957. This was my first
time seeing Roy Chiao other than in Enter the Dragon, Enter the
Fat Dragon, and Tower of Death (aka Game of Death II), and my
first encounter with Kelly Lai Chen, who is the brother of Betty
Loh Tih (who co-starred with Ivy Ling Po in The Love Eterne).

The story involves a rivalry between two singers, and it is really
quite entertaining, with memorable tunes and performances. There
is a pair of dogged, mostly one-sided romances woven through the
proceedings. Annette Chang plays a spunky go-getter who is an
understudy of sorts to Julie Yeh Feng. Highly recommended.