Rear Entrance
This program is presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Echoes From Spring Street: The World of Sing Lee and Chinese-Language Cinema in L.A.. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
In person: guest programmer Janet Louie, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, will give a brief talk about the history of the Sing Lee Theatre before the screening. Q&A with Louie, Head of Collection Services Staci Hogsett and Circulation Coordinator Diana Cardenas.
This rare print preserves audio that has been lost in modern editions of the film. Directed by the legendary Li Han-hsiang of Shaw Brothers fame, Rear Entrance tells the moving story of a childless woman (played by the extraordinary silent-to-sound era actress Butterfly Woo) who adopts a neglected young girl (the future teen idol of the girl group Four Golden Flowers) in their back-alley neighborhood. Upon its release, the film received critical acclaim, winning Best Film at the 7th Asian Film Festival (1960).
Director: Li Han-hsiang. Screenwriter: Wang Yueh-ting. With: Butterfly Woo, Li Hsiang-chun, Chao Ming, Chin Miao.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is a division of UCLA Library, and presents its public programs in the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer, among other venues. For more information about the Archive, visit cinema.ucla.edu.
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