Member bruceleeclones Posted July 10, 2018 Member Share Posted July 10, 2018 Anyone know anything about the L&T Films corporation Ltd/Ark Films. They released a bunch of Kung fu movies in the US, often with some crazy re-titles. I'm trying to find out who owned the company and what year they went out of business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted July 11, 2018 Member Share Posted July 11, 2018 John Charles of Hong Kong Digital was able to identify them - maybe he knows? His website hasn't been updated since 2006 though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted July 11, 2018 Member Share Posted July 11, 2018 On 7/10/2018 at 10:16 PM, bruceleeclones said: Anyone know anything about the L&T Films corporation Ltd/Ark Films. They released a bunch of Kung fu movies in the US, often with some crazy re-titles. I'm trying to find out who owned the company and what year they went out of business. Sounds like something @ThunderScore would know more about. Sure he's posted a lot of the companys posters?, unless I'm mixing them up with another firm?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member bruceleeclones Posted July 12, 2018 Author Member Share Posted July 12, 2018 It's always good to know who was behind these companies. A load of indie companies (especially in the US) released Kung Fu movies in the 70's and 80's. It's difficult to find any information about any of these distributors now. I wonder what happened to all the posters and stills these companies had for the releases, the nearest dumpster I'm guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member NoKUNGFUforYU Posted July 13, 2018 Member Share Posted July 13, 2018 3 hours ago, bruceleeclones said: It's always good to know who was behind these companies. A load of indie companies (especially in the US) released Kung Fu movies in the 70's and 80's. It's difficult to find any information about any of these distributors now. I wonder what happened to all the posters and stills these companies had for the releases, the nearest dumpster I'm guessing. Not a lot of sentiment with these movies. Also, for a certain segment of the audience, the Bruce Lee imitators were considered bottom of the barrel. Who would know that there would be so many fans of Bruce Le and Bruce Li when even some of the distributors knew they were trying to trick the audience into thinking Bruce Lee might appear in a scene, etc? Also, these smaller companies didn't have the infrastructure to preserve films for long term. First run, second run, drive in, done. That's probably what happened to The Godfathers of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Connection, the two Kim Jun Pal movies that disappeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member NoKUNGFUforYU Posted July 16, 2018 Member Share Posted July 16, 2018 PS, stills and posters were a weird deal back then. Most had to be sent back or stored for a second run at the local theater. Believe me, in Berkeley we would have been buying them up every week. Same with Chinatown, hard to get them to give them up. Pretty sure they were stored. You have to remember, printing and photo costs were high back then! But, so were storage costs. If you weren't going to show them again, why keep them? These guys were businessmen, not fans. As Run Run Shaw once said to the question "What was your favorite movie?"- "The ones that made lots of money" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Temple of Schlock Posted February 15, 2019 Member Share Posted February 15, 2019 My booklet essay for the upcoming SISTER STREET FIGHTER Blu-ray from Arrow reveals who was behind L&T/Ark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted December 17, 2019 Member Share Posted December 17, 2019 Loosely Bruce Lee(Article) Source- http://thenewbev.com/blog/2017/09/loosely-bruce-lee/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member NoKUNGFUforYU Posted December 18, 2019 Member Share Posted December 18, 2019 Fighting Convoy is Killer From Above, one of my customs, LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted December 18, 2019 Member Share Posted December 18, 2019 This one is My Kung Fu 12 Kicks. I think this one is Amsterdam Connection. I did a collaborative HKMDB search for the three stars and this was the only title that popped up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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