Singa Laoet
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| Directed by | Tan Tjoei Hock |
| Produced by | The Teng Chun |
| Screenplay by | Tan Tjoei Hock |
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| Cinematography | Tan Tjoei Hock |
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Action Film
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76 minutes |
| Country | Dutch East Indies |
| Language | Indonesian |
Singa Laoet (Perfected Spelling: Singa Laut; Indonesian for The Sea Lion or The Merlion) is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia). Directed by Tan Tjoei Hock and produced by The Teng Chun, it starred Tan Tjen Bok, Mohamad Mochtar, and Hadidjah.
Robin is exiled from society after he is accused of murdering a man named Ibrahim in a fight. Twenty years later Ibrahim's son, Mahmud, begins a search for his father's killer. He soon reaches the island of Sampojo, where he finds Robin. The exile has taken up piracy and now uses the name "Singa Laoet" (The Sea Lion). After one of Robin's men, Hasan, kidnaps a girl whom he loves, Mahmud tracks the kidnapper down and fights him to the death. It is later revealed that Hasan, not Robin, was the one who killed Ibrahim.
Singa Laoet was directed by Tan Tjoei Hock, a Chinese-Indonesian director who had been attached to The Teng Chun's Java Industrial Film since 1940; They produced the film for Action Film, a subsidiary of Java Industrial Film. Tan is also credited with the screenwriting, cinematography, and sound editing of this 76-minute-long black-and-white film. Production of this film was mostly finished by October 1941.
The film starred Tan Tjeng Bok, Hadidjah, Bissu, and Mohamad Mochtar. Three of the actors had extended experience with Java Industrial Film: Bissu had made his screen debut for the company in 1938's Oh Iboe, Hadidjah had joined with her husband Mas Sardi in 1939 for Roesia si Pengkor, and Mochtar had appeared in Alang-Alang later that year after being discovered in a barbershop. Tan Tjeng Bok, a former stage star with Dardanella, was a more recent hire, only having made his film debut in the company's 1941 production Srigala Item.
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