Raymond Chow/Bruce Lee's Death

[Phantom Dreamer]

A little refresher: 

Raymond raced across town to Betty’s apartment. This was before cell phones, so at stoplights Raymond repeatedly jumped out of his car to use a pay phone to redial Langford, whose line remained busy. (He later learned that Langford’s daughter was on the phone with her boyfriend.)

When Chow arrived at the apartment, he found Bruce undressed, lying flat on her mattress, and Betty crumpled next to him in a state of shock.

“Bruce, Bruce, Bruce,” Betty kept calling out, her voice hoarse.

Bruce Lee did not respond. Raymond Chow realized he was too late. His star was already dead.

As he stood there looking down on Bruce’s lifeless body and Betty’s sobbing frame, the enormous danger of the situation must have dawned on Raymond. The most famous man in Hong Kong was dead in his mistress’s bed, and the two of them were the only witnesses. The scandal would consume them. The press would blame them. It could end their careers, maybe even put them in legal jeopardy. If Raymond’s original imperative was to save Bruce’s life, now his immediate goal was clear: Bruce Lee had to die somewhere else besides his mistress’s apartment.

Raymond re-dressed Bruce’s body. He buttoned up his shirt, put on his European-style trousers, and laced up his high-heeled platform boots. Chow may have considered moving the body — Bruce’s home was only a five-minute drive away. He may also have considered driving the body to the hospital himself — Baptist Hospital, where Bruce had gone on May 10, was only a three-minute drive in the opposite direction. The death of a superstar at home or at a hospital would shock but not scandalize the public.

Ultimately, Chow decided to bring in a doctor. He told Betty Ting Pei to call her personal concierge physician, Dr. Eugene Chu Poh-hwye, who worked at Baptist Hospital. Betty implored Dr. Chu to come over to her apartment to treat a friend in need of help. She did not tell the good doctor the name of the patient or his condition.

When Dr. Chu arrived, he found Bruce Lee lying in bed deeply comatose and not rousable. His pulse was not perceptible and the heartbeat was not audible. There was no respiration and no sign of life. He tried to revive Bruce for ten minutes without success.

www.theringer.com/platform/amp/movies/2018/5/29/17400010/bruce-lee-death-a-life-matthew-polly?source=images

[mpm74]

I'm also curious to hear what kind of "new" stories will cum after the passing of Raymond Chow. 

"Behind every fortune there is a crime" – Paul Bramhall 

[DragonClaws]

15 hours ago, mpm74 said:

"Behind every fortune there is a crime" – Paul Bramhall 

 

I thought it was Honore de Balzac, who said this?, later quoted by Mario Puzo in The Godfather book.

[mpm74]

7 hours ago, DragonClaws said:

 

I thought it was Honore de Balzac, who said this?, later quoted by Mario Puzo in The Godfather book.

All I know is Paul (aka @One Armed Boxer) said it to me.  

[One Armed Boxer]

8 hours ago, mpm74 said:

All I know is Paul (aka @One Armed Boxer) said it to me.  

Stop looking at the finger.

[DiP]

Waiting to see both Linda and Betty say something now that they have an open opportunity...

[reason108]

Good luck with that! Linda would never say anything that would destroy the piggy bank. And, poor Betty has lost all credibility.

[DragonClaws]

 

If Chow was the cause of people holding back?, maybe he wasnt the only person involved in keeping them quite?.

 

Agree with @reason108 thoughts on this.

 

1 hour ago, reason108 said:

Good luck with that! Linda would never say anything that would destroy the piggy bank.

 

[Phantom Dreamer]

The people, they continue to want to KNOW things!

[Phantom Dreamer]

JasonV - I’ve done a great bit of research and found out that Bruce actually was going over a Hanna Barbera deal for a cartoon series on the day he died. Movies slated for production in late 1973-74 included:
-completion if Game of Death (fall’73)
-Shaw Bros film (possibly Green Bamboo Warrior)
- The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss (starring Bruce lee, george lazenby’ late spring’1974)
-Completion of contract to film 2 spy movies for Warner Brothers (summer 1974-winter 1974)
-Warner brothers deal with Concord
-Severed ties with Raymond Chow


Dragon B -  The Hannah Barbera project became Hong Kong Fooey, with Scatman Crothers voicing the title character.
The Shaw Bros film became The Rebellious Reign released in 1980, starring Jimmy Lee Fong and Norman Chu Siu Kung.
The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss was made in The U.S. as Golden Needles starring Joe Don Baker and Jim Kelly in a reduced role.
One Spy Film that was to star Lee was the James Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun, with Lee as Inspector Hip, later played by Korean actor Soon Tek Oh who's role was reduced when Lee died. 

The intention of "severing ties with Raymond Chow" appears to be the reason Lee died suddenly, and mysteriously. Not proven, but most avenues point toward this theory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Phantom Dreamer]

Robert Chua, you have the freedom now. You are free.

[Cognoscente]

July 20, 1973 was the 56th birthday of an actor named Hoh Ban. He acted in three movies with Betty Ting Pei – The Brain-Stealers (1968), The Yellow Muffler (1971) and Stock Fever (1973). He also did two movies with Chan Wai-Man: The Chivalrous Knight (1974) and Bravest Fist (1974). On December 11, 1981, Hoh Ban died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a heart attack.

In 1983, William Cheung was interviewed for People Magazine where he talked about Bruce being murdered. When he was asked why it took him so long to want to make a movie about Bruce's life, William said: "Let's just say that a certain, once very powerful and wealthy individual is no longer in circulation."