Taken direct from the book of life, with its unexpected complexities and its joys and sorrow, "Ang Tiktik," a detective story filmed under the expert direction of Joaquin Pardo de Tavera, chief of the Division of Investigation of the Department of Justice, brings to the screen lovers of the Philippines a new high in gripping realism and fidelity to human experience.
"Ang Tiktik" is a drama of modern life, for the detective is a modern creature. It hovers around the eternal struggle between justice and evil, and between the guardians of the law and the enemies of peace and public order and welfare.
Juan, an unassuming but faithful officer of the law finds himself torn between duty to his country, and his fraternal love for Jose, a carefree 'brother who is enmeshed in a sinister plot through his unscrupulous companions. Through his association with a certain character named Ricardo, he becomes a victim of "The Shadow," a notorious criminal lurking in the dark, awaiting his opportunity to overthrow peace and order, merely for his own personal benefit regardless of the consequences to the community. But Jose's better nature asserts itself in time, and when he realizes his dreadful predicament, he tries to free himself from the withering clutches of "The Shadow." At this juncture, "The Shadow" devises a way to get even with Jose. He kidnaps Lilay, sweetheart of Jose, keeps her in bondage and tortures her in order to force Jose to obey his unlawful orders. Jose, carried by his love for his sweetheart in distress is left no other course but to surrender to the sinister designs of "The Shadow."In the meanwhile Jose's brother, Juan, who is now a full-pledged detective, have been doing a lot of undercover work, and has found the hideout of the master criminal. ‘The Shadow," too confident because Jose is forced to give in to his designs, awaits the full denouement. He does not know that Juan has come to the rescue, with the full force of the law and the police, and in a series of breathless sequences, the story comes to a dramatic climax. But we shall not tell everything. You have to see the picture to appreciate its full impact upon the imagination.
(The Tribune, March 19, 1941)
"Ang Tik-Tik" (1941)
Associated Theatres
Release Date March 19, 1941/ Grand Theater
Direction Joaquin Pardo de Tavera
Cast Tito Arevalo, Lirio Lakindanum, with Eddy Infante, Juanito Anglo, Telesforo Manalo
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