Love Tie or Time Before Military Service Day () is a 1963 South Vietnamese 35mm black-and-white film directed by Lê Mộng Hoàng.
Plot
A love story of Dũng, a playboy from the National Conservatory of Music and Lệ Trinh, a cabaret songstress.
Production
Location is Saigon in 1963 while before the 1 November coup.
Art
Type: Romance, feature. Studio: Mỹ Vân Films Print: National Cinema Centre Directors: Lê Mộng Hoàng Screenplay: Nguyễn Thành Châu Composer: Phạm Duy Theme songs by Hoàng Thi Thơ (with Tình đêm liên hoan), Nguyễn Hiền (w. Đường tơ thôi lưu luyến), Văn Phụng (w. Tôi đi giữa hoàng hôn), Trúc Phương (w. Tơ vương & Chuyện chúng mình) and Phạm Duy (w. Tơ tình).
Cast
Thẩm Thúy Hằng as Lệ Trinh
Mai Ly as Thu Hà
La Thoại Tân as Trần Anh Dũng
Tâm Đan as Hồng Liên
Thanh Thúy as Herself as cabaret singer
Bảy Nhiêu as Trần Anh Kiệt
Hữu Phước as Biết
Lê Thương as Mr. Công
Hoàng Mai as Lâm
Năm Châu
with musicians and dancers of the Vietnam Artists Association (Đoàn Văn nghệ Việt Nam).
References
Lê Quang Thanh Tâm, Pre-1975 South Vietnamese Cinema, Ho Chi Minh City Culture and Art Publishing House, 2015. Sovereignty, Surveillance and Spectacle in The Saigon Fabulous Four