Kacha Permata ('Glass Gems', 1966); a Jamil Sulong family melodrama film classic

Directed by Jamil Sulong
Written by S. Sudarmaji (story), Jamil Sulong (screenplay)
Songs composed by Yusoff B. and Kassim Masdor, with lyrics by Nordin Arshad, Kemat Hassan, Jamil Sulong
Produced by Malay Film Productions (Shaw Brothers)
In Malay
Starring: Jins Shamsuddin, Rosnani Jamil
, Ahmad Daud, Zaiton, Haji Mahadi

Hamzah is the heir to his family’s Eveready battery manufacturing business in Singapore (1:15:39). Against his prejudiced father’s wishes, he insists on marrying Laili, a dancer he has fallen in love with. Renouncing wealth and affluence, Hamzah moves to a spartan house and works as an odd-job labourer to maintain a frugal life with Laili. However, his father plots to separate the couple. He succeeds in getting Hamzah back into his fold and cajoling him into the next marriage with a woman of the parents’ choice. Laili exiles herself with her newborn son. Soon after, Hamzah and his second wife pass away in succession, leaving their newborn son to the care of the grandparents. Hamzah’s sons, Osman and Omar, grow up under contrasting environments and take up differing personalities, one humble and diligent, the other loafing and arrogant. They are fated to cross paths when Osman returns to Singapore to study, graduating to find employment at the family’s battery factory that Omar has been tasked to manage.

Film Locations (in Singapore): Eveready battery factory (Hillview Road) [13:46, 15:41, 30:50, 57:31, 1:09:51, 1:15:39, 1:28:50]; Shaw Brothers’ Jalan Ampas Film Studios [13:35, 33:48, 1:40:11];

Bukit Timah Railway Station [1:02:35];
Tanjong Pagar Railway Station
[1:10:35]; Mount Faber [1:12:52]; Kampung at Whitley Road (?) [9:50, 16:00, 19:36, 34:04, 1:11:10]

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