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Being as I have not seen ALL, or even close to the majority of the old school films out there, this is my TOP 10 list thus far. This list may change after I view more movies over time.

*Excluding Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest films.

This list is in no particular order. I will list the movie title, then some key elements of why I think the movie is a TOP film.

Shaolin vs Lama

Great action / Decent humor

Return of the Deadly Blade

Dubbing, great lines / Great characters / Good story / Top Cast

The Loot

Superb Action / Good humor

The Invincible Armour

Silver Fox / Good story / Top Kickers / Great Western soundtrack

The Unbeaten 28

Great classic story / Training / Various obstacles

The 7 Grandmasters

Top action / Tons of fights

Master of the Flying Guillotine

Great characters / Classic weapon

Heroes of the Wild

Good story / Great action / Top Cast

The Mystery of Chess Boxing

Great characters / Top action

The Hot, The Cool and the Vicious

Great story / Great action

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My top 10 in no particular order:

Challenge of Death

Secret Rivals

Snuff Bottle Connection

The Loot

Thundering Mantis

7 Grandmasters

Descendant of Wing Chun

Iron Monkey (Chen Kuan Tai)

Knight Errant

My Life's on the Line

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Good to see you up and running Ray.....

My top ten are as follows:

Shaolin Plot

Warriors 2

Crippled Avengers

Avenging Eagle

My Life On The Line

Invincible Armour

Bloody Fist

The Loot

The Victim

Mystery of Chess Boxing

This is a tough call but I have my favorites...

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Good to see you up and running Ray.....

My top ten are as follows:

Shaolin Plot

Warriors 2

Crippled Avengers

Avenging Eagle

My Life On The Line

Invincible Armour

Bloody Fist

The Loot

The Victim

Mystery of Chess Boxing

This is a tough call but I have my favorites...

This is a GREAT list Pete. When I compiled mine, I did not include any Shaw Brothers or Golden Harvest production films. If I had, my list would of been a bit different. :smile

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all good movies, I would add the Sword, warriors 2, prodigal son,duel to death, Buddhist fist, Legend of a Fighter. leaving off a bunch i bet but thats ok lol

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Hello Pete!!

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So very nice to see you here !! & Your list, it is an ULTIMATE CLASSICS LIST !! Only the very BEST !! CRIPPLED AVENGERS & INVINCIBLE ARMOUR is some of my all time favorites ..Besids the Taiwanese Swordplay 3 FAMOUS CONSTABLES AKA THE ELIMINATION PURSUIT & THE SNUFF BOTTLE CONNECTION !

(Of course this would make it a top 12 not 10 ... :rofl:love:rofl )

Thank you !!! ~Athena (Image courtesy HKMDB.com )

Good to see you up and running Ray.....

My top ten are as follows:

Shaolin Plot

Warriors 2

Crippled Avengers

Avenging Eagle

My Life On The Line

Invincible Armour

Bloody Fist

The Loot

The Victim

Mystery of Chess Boxing

This is a tough call but I have my favorites...

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all good movies, I would add the Sword, warriors 2, prodigal son,duel to death, Buddhist fist, Legend of a Fighter. leaving off a bunch i bet but thats ok lol

Hey there mmacchia5 !! Cool name !!

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I LOVE THE SWORD too, I really like the look of that movie ..Wonderful choices you have :clappinghands !! he prodigal son is probably my favorite Wing Chun movie ! I like the " semi"- connection it has to BOTH the (not bad at all) TV series WING CHUN & REAL KUNG FU ! Youn Biao is good in both !!

Thank you, ~Athena
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I really need to come up with my own it's really frustrating every time this question comes up & my favourite film keep changing but I think I'll stick with FIST OF FURY as top.

Favourite non-SB, GH I'll try & get back to you.

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Still not really sure but in alphabetical order favourite non-SB GH's for January 2011 are something like this:

FEARLESS HYENA

INVINCIBLE ARMOUR

MONKEY FIST FLOATING SNAKE

NINJA IN THE DRAGON'S DEN

ODD COUPLE

SECRET RIVALS

SHAOLIN VS LAMA

SHAOLIN VS WU TANG

SHOWDOWN AT THE COTTONMILL

THE VICTIM

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Yang Wu Liang

Always a difficult proposition to come up with a top 10 but here's mine. These are only 'traditional kung fu' though, I took the swordplay ones out to save for their own top 10!

1. Ninja Hunter

2. Shaolin Temple Against Lama

3. Kung Fu Zombie

and in no particular order -

Massacre Survivor

Mystery Of Chess Boxing

Seven Grandmasters

Two Wondrous Tigers

Incredible Kung Fu Mission

Woman Avenger

The Victim

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Its always difficult to give a top 10 when you have a top 100 like me lol

My friend Pete, I can only imagine what your top "Top" list would be like, as I know you have seen many, many films. :smile

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Some of my favs, in no particular order.

Magnificent Ruffians

Crippled Avengers

Dynamo

Exit the Dragon Enter the Tiger

BL the Man the Myth

Sentimental Swordsman

Five Fingers of Death

Jaguar Lives

The Death of Bruce Lee (aka Black Dragon's Revenge)

Man of Iron

(Bruce Lee is assumed to be above-and-beyond any category!)

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Morgoth Bauglir

This list could look a lot different next week, but these are my top 10 for right now non Shaw/GH. ... Actually, after spending about an hour making my list, I decided to leave out Seasonal Films also since their movies are taking up half of my list (Legend of a Fighter, Drunken Master, Dance of Drunk Mantis, Snake In Eagle’s Shadow and Ninja in Dragon’s Den).

Shaolin vs Lama

7 Grandmasters

Rebellious Reign

One Armed Boxer

Little Superman

Five Fighters from Shaolin

Mystery of Chessboxing

Buddha’s Palm and Dragon Fist

Undaunted Wudang

My Life’s is on the Line

Edit (again!)- This is really bugging me. I’m not good at these lists because I’m not good at making choices. I’m gonna have to list another 10 just to make myself feel better :tongueout

Shanghai 13

Death Duel of Kung Fu

Sleeping Fist

Daggers 8

Master and the Kid

Dirty Tiger Crazy Frog

Iron Dragon Strikes Back

The Challenger

Kung Fu Headcrusher aka Tough Guy

Tiger Over Wall

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This list could look a lot different next week, but these are my top 10 for right now non Shaw/GH. ... Actually, after spending about an hour making my list, I decided to leave out Seasonal Films also since their movies are taking up half of my list (Legend of a Fighter, Drunken Master, Dance of Drunk Mantis, Snake In Eagle’s Shadow and Ninja in Dragon’s Den).

Shaolin vs Lama

7 Grandmasters

Rebellious Reign

One Armed Boxer

Little Superman

Five Fighters from Shaolin

Mystery of Chessboxing

Buddha’s Palm and Dragon Fist

Undaunted Wudang

My Life’s is on the Line

Edit (again!)- This is really bugging me. I’m not good at these lists because I’m not good at making choices. I’m gonna have to list another 10 just to make myself feel better :tongueout

Shanghai 13

Death Duel of Kung Fu

Sleeping Fist

Daggers 8

Master and the Kid

Dirty Tiger Crazy Frog

Iron Dragon Strikes Back

The Challenger

Kung Fu Headcrusher aka Tough Guy

Tiger Over Wall

Both of your lists are TOPS my friend. I am a bit surprised not to see The Loot. Just curious, have you seen this movie, and if so, what did you think of it? HAHA, I am not trying to force any of my choices on anyone, I am genuinely curious about this. I actually would like to change 1 movie on my Top 10, I so regretfully forgot to put The Victim on there. This movie so deserves a spot on my Top 10. I may edit mine after some more thought on this. :smile

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Morgoth Bauglir

If I was to make a top 25 list (which is actually what I did :tongueout ), The Loot would be one of the movies I'd be struggling to decide if it makes the cut. The Victim would make the top 25 cut no doubt. But for my last 10 choices, I chose movies I didn't see selected yet. There's still so many I want to list! but after listing 25 I will finally be able stop thinking about what my top 10 is. My brain wouldn't let me list just 10, and I have to do what it says otherwise it will torture me.

BTW if you haven't seen The Challenger check it out. I like it a tad more than The Loot, and it has pretty much the same cast, and the same director and producer. The final fight made me lose my vision for a couple days. So do yourself a favor and remember to blink!

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The final fight made me lose my vision for a couple days. So do yourself a favor and remember to blink!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! :rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

I think I've seen this movie years ago, but I do not recall it at all. I will definitely check it out again soon, and thanks for the warning. :smile

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Still not really sure but in alphabetical order favourite non-SB GH's for January 2011 are something like this:

FEARLESS HYENA

INVINCIBLE ARMOUR

MONKEY FIST FLOATING SNAKE

NINJA IN THE DRAGON'S DEN

ODD COUPLE

SECRET RIVALS

SHAOLIN VS LAMA

SHAOLIN VS WU TANG

SHOWDOWN AT THE COTTONMILL

THE VICTIM

Well that will be my 'shapes' list I'm going to come up with a 'bashers' aka 'punch & block' list.

I think FREEDOM STRIKES A BLOW aka CHINESE HERCULES will be top.

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*Excluding Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest films.

Top 10 Old School Kung Fu Movies

In no particular order, and subject to change -

Exit the Fat Dragon

The Buddhist Fist

Snake and Crane Secret

The Unbeaten 28

Prodigal Boxer

The Boxers Adventure

Return of the Kung Fu Dragon

Hap Ki Do

Kung Fu of Eight Drunkards

The Guy with Secret Kung Fu

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Man this is not easy at all, so many to choose from and my mind is blank can't remember, LOL...

If you need to remember, you have already forgotten, grasshopper.

Return to the classics, and imbibe once again :movie

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Some all time favs of mine are Iron Monkey 1977 and The Victim...and without a doubt Warriors 2 up there among the VERY BEST!!

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No particular order:

1. Enter The Dragon

2. Way of The Dragon

3. Mad Monkey Kung Fu

4. Drunken Master

5. 7 Grandmasters

6. Crippled Avengers

7. 5 Deadly Venoms

8. Two On The Road

9. 10 Tigers of Kwangtung

10. Shaolin Challenges Ninja

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That is a very respectable list J-Smooth, and more importantly, thank you for registering and participating here on the forum.

Hope to see more posts from you. :)

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