What Price Honesty?

What Price Honesty?

89 mins | Action | Dec. 31, 1981

Police corruption is the theme of this brutal harbinger of the bleak "new wave" crime thriller. Pai Piao, Danny Lee, and "Venom" Sun Chien star as idealistic police school graduates who run afoul of such vicious, murderous depravity that the cop who is killed first could be considered the lucky one.

What Price Honesty?

89 mins | Action | Dec. 31, 1981

What Price Honesty?
Police corruption is the theme of this brutal harbinger of the bleak "new wave" crime thriller. Pai Piao, Danny Lee, and "Venom" Sun Chien star as idealistic police school graduates who run afoul of such vicious, murderous depravity that the cop who is killed first could be considered the lucky one.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Shaw Brothers
Original title 目無王法
Directors Patrick Yuen Ho-Chuen
Writers Ni Kuang

Cast

Jason Pai Piao

as He Zhong Heng

Sun Chien

as Luo Zhang

Danny Lee Sau-Yin

as Ying Hao

Lily Li

as Ying Hao's wife

Lo Lieh

as Sun Long

Yeung Chi-Hing

as Lord Huang, envoy

Chiang Nan

as Lord Ge, magistrate

Keung Hon

as Chief Liu

Chan Shen

as Fifth Master

Wong Ching-Ho

as Bank customer

Lam Sau-Kwan

as Xiu Lian

Ting Tung

as Prison guard

Mama Hung

as Brothel madam

Hung San-Nam

as Constable

Ailen Sit Chun-Wai

as Constable

Brandy Yuen Jan-Yeung

as Prisoner/Prison guard

Ngai Tim-Choi

as Prisoner

Sai Gwa-Pau

as Bank teller

Gam Tin-Chue

as Shopkeeper