Norkiah (Sharifah Hashim), a nightclub singer new to Kuala Lumpur, rents the room next to Sha'ari (P. Ramlee), a teacher who moonlights as a bandleader. Keeping opposite hours, the neighbours quarrel through the wall without ever meeting, while outside, after Sha'ari saves her from a pickpocket on a bus, they fall in love, each unaware who the other is. They marry, Norkiah claiming to teach cookery. When Sha'ari finds her singing in a nightclub he walls their joined rooms apart again, until a friend's trick with a tape recorder, playing a man's voice in her room, stirs his jealousy and brings them back together.
Songs: ‘Ai Ai Twist’
Keluarga 69 1967
Keluarga 69 tells the story of a father and son business duo who become estranged when the son is thrown out of his home due to alcoholism. The son then teams up with a kind former tenant who helps him become a successful singer, but they encounter various challenges along the way. The film also features mismatched romantic alliances within the family, resulting in hilarious situations. Despite being a comedy, Keluarga 69 deals with several serious subjects. The film’s themes include family dysfunction, love, friendship, personal growth, alcoholism, poverty, suicide and hedonism.
Anak Bapak 1968
Che' Harun (P. Ramlee), a generous spendthrift deep in debt, wires his rich father, Dato' Mahfiz (A.R. Tompel), that he needs money to marry. When Dato' Mahfiz comes to Kuala Lumpur with his nurse, Halimah (Roseyatimah), to meet his new daughter-in-law, Harun 'borrows' his driver's wife to play the part, and the creditor Normah demands a cheque for her silence. Harun falls in love with Halimah and marries her. Finding the cheque worthless, Normah threatens to go to court; Dato' Mahfiz holds the trial in his own house, acquits his son, orders himself to double Harun's allowance and sentences Normah to marry him. (Synopses after Ahmad Sarji, Erti Yang Sakti, 1999.)
