The Beauty and the Dumb

Anatole Frances The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife has been adapted into three different Hong Kong films in the 1950s alone These two adaptations stray from the source material considerably in genre characterisation and plot turning a farce about married life into localised romantic comedies that emphasise family values The Beauty and the Dumb follows the couple from their meetcute to the misunderstandings they encounter before the inevitable happy ending The heir of a bank Huang He falls in love at first sight with one of the employees daughter Li Lihua but their burgeoning relationship is nearly derailed when the girls father intervenes to help his dumb daughter land a rich husband