| The Top Bet | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 賭霸 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 赌霸 | ||||||||||
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| Directed by | Jeffrey Lau Corey Yuen | ||||||||||
| Written by | Jeffrey Lau Ng See-yuen Corey Yuen | ||||||||||
| Produced by | Jeffrey Lau Corey Yuen | ||||||||||
| Starring | Carol Cheng Anita Mui Ng Man-tat | ||||||||||
| Cinematography | Jimmy Leung | ||||||||||
| Edited by | Hai Kit-wai | ||||||||||
| Music by | Lowell Lo | ||||||||||
Production companies | Bo Ho Films Paragon Films | ||||||||||
| Distributed by | Golden Harvest | ||||||||||
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Running time | 111 minutes | ||||||||||
| Country | Hong Kong | ||||||||||
| Language | Cantonese | ||||||||||
| Box office | HK$15,575,932 | ||||||||||
The Top Bet (Chinese:賭霸 Literal translation:Queen of Gambling) is a 1991 Hong Kongcomedy film directed byJeffrey Lau andCorey Yuen and starringCarol Cheng,Anita Mui andNg Man-tat. It is a sequel to Lau and Yuen's 1990 filmAll for the Winner.[1]
After Sing (Stephen Chow) uses his special powers to beat Hung Kwong (Paul Chun) in the Gambling King Competition, his elder sister Mei (Anita Mui) is ordered by the Special Power Clan inMainland China to bring him back as he is not supposed to use his special powers for gambling. Meanwhile, Sing is on a world tour and Mei cannot find him in their Uncle's (Ng Man-tat) home. In the meantime, Sing's ex-Taiwanese boss Chan Chung (Jeffrey Lau) is looking for him to represent Taiwan again in another upcoming world gambling competition. Since he cannot be found, his Uncle is at his wit's end to find someone with similar powers to replace him. Whence, comes a rescuer in the form of a local female gambler by the name of Fanny (Carol Cheng), a.k.a. Queen of Gambling, at a fish market. But in reality, she is no more than a con artist fooling her fellow fishmongers. Fanny decides to pretend to have special powers because she needs a large sum of money to cure her younger brother's illness.