The Watch
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A street-wise and tough orphan called Maverick is arrested for a petty theft and sent to an orphanage, but succeeds in concealing a watch he had stolen from an old shopkeeper just before his arrest. At the orphanage, he is recruited by a crooked warder for further and more serious crimes. But when two more children are admitted to the orphanage -- a boy called "Fatty" and a girl called "Little Mouse" -- he makes the first friends he has ever had. But when Maverick learns the girl is the granddaughter of the old shopkeeper he stole the watch from, and what ruin it brought to her family, he has a crisis of conscience.
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Cast
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Zhao Qiansun
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Cai Yuanyuan
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Yang Wenlong
Yu Zhongying
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This Life of Mine
Fu Shi
Li Chunxiao
Li Ping
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Wonder Boy
Dragon Beard Ditch
Cui Chaoming
Known for
Spring in a Small Town
Tian Zhendong
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The Winter of Three Hairs
This Life of Mine
Shen Yang
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This Life of Mine
Sorrows and Joys of a Middle-Aged Man
Cheng Zhi
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Shi Ling
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Zhou Ruide
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Sorrows and Joys of a Middle-Aged Man
Huang Zuolin Director
First release December 31, 1949 · Produced in China · Original title 錶
Production
Wenhua Film Company
Production
China
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Languages
Original title
錶
Original language
Chinese
Spoken on screen
Chinese
Release dates
China · December 31, 1949
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No release date listed for United States.
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