My Man Godfrey (Ho): The IFD Appreciation Thread

[Guest morgoth]

Haven't seen it. I will have to check it out when I can.

I never liked Bruce Le. I thought his choreography was good most of the time but his choreography couldn't help his sub standard on screen fighting skills.

[Guest Chinatown Kid]

Have never been much of a fan of Bruce Le or Dragon Lee but am a fan of Bruce Li. I thought his films like Dynamo, The Lama Avenger, Soul Brothers of Kung Fu and Chinese Stuntman featured great action and were entertaining movies. Dragon and Le just overdid the Bruce mannerisms and came off to campy imo. Challenge of the Tiger is worth seeing though for HJL's appearance.

[Guest morgoth]

Thought Dynamo was a bit below average and but still entertaining. HAvent' seen those other flicks. Bruce Li is defintely the best though Tong Long had THE shining performance as a clone. The thing that surprised me about Dynamo was that the final fight was pretty good but it had a great ending which is very rare for a fu movie.

[Guest Chinatown Kid]

Yeah it was actually meant to be a statement on the exploitive and manipulative nature of the HK movie industry which I'm sure Bruce Li(Real Name:Ho Chung Tao) identified with. This film, along with Chinese Stuntman and Fists of Fury II are his favorite, and he also considers his best films.

[Guest killer meteor]

Talking of Bruce Li, on his very early films, his English name is Li Shao Lung - Mandarin for Bruce Lee. IS this what they called him on the Chinese versions and if so - dodgy!

[Guest Chinatown Kid]

I have no idea how many alias names Ho has, mostly given to him by unscrupulous producers. I think Jimmy Shaw came up with the name Bruce Li for Ho when he came out with Exit The Dragon;Enter The Tiger. I have heard Ho personally say in interviews that he wants to be called either Ho Chung Tao or James Ho and that he always hated the Lee alias names the filmakers tried to stick on him as he felt it was cheating people.

[Guest gfanikf]

Thanks for the info guys (yes this is a ghetto bump method)!

[Guest morgoth]

I was just watching Dragon On Fire last night. Such a great movie. My favorite character has to be Tino Wong's master who smokes like 8 cigarettes at a time.

[Guest Chinatown Kid]

Yeah and who can forget the German Shepard biting the old man's weenie off. :lol

[Guest morgoth]

I can only try to forget:x

[Guest Chinatown Kid]

I thought it was hilarious! The old rapist got what he deserved, lol. You could tell it was a hot dog weenie they put in the dogs mouth, it looked so ridiculous.....then you have Bolo hopping around like an ape with that big patch of fake hair on him, definately weird.

[Guest Takano2002]

Talking about history...Asso Asia was formed by Joseph Lai, Tomas Tang and George Lai (bro of Joseph).

At mid-80's everyone went to form their own company.

Today, the movies produced by George Lai in the past are distributed by IFD (mainly femme fatale material by Godfrey Ho) but the movies by Tomas Tang are believed lost in the fire that kill him. Nobody distributes now the Filmmark films.

[Guest Shaolin Dog Paw]

Thank you AMM for starting this topic. Im a huge fan of Cassanova wong, Eagle Han, Elton Chong, and all of the Godfrey Ho/ IFD movies. This has been very informative.

Does anyone have any information at all about the whereabouts of Elton Chong? The closest i came to finding out was a smalls news article about a guy named Elton Chong who owned a resturaunt called the "Buffet King".

[Guest Atomic Mystery Monster]

Thank you AMM for starting this topic. Im a huge fan of Cassanova wong, Eagle Han, Elton Chong, and all of the Godfrey Ho/ IFD movies. This has been very informative.

You're very welcome! I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person around who actually likes these movies.

I'm afraid that I don't have any information about Elton Chong, but I can point you in the direction of some more Godfrey Ho goodness.

[Guest Shaolin Dog Paw]

the IFD website doesnt have too many links that work. But i did get a contact email address and send a very nice email to them. I asked if they could provide me with any information in regards to Elton Chong, Mike Wong, Eagle Han, or Godfrey Ho.

Hopefully i'll hear back from them, and if i do ill post it here. Thank you again AMM for starting this topic.

[Guest Atomic Mystery Monster]

the IFD website doesnt have too many links that work.

How so? I just visited the site and all of the main links worked fine for me (I didn't check all the trailer and pressbook links due to time).

But i did get a contact email address and send a very nice email to them. I asked if they could provide me with any information in regards to Elton Chong, Mike Wong, Eagle Han, or Godfrey Ho.

I've e-mailed them before and I usually get a nice reply fairly quickly. However, there are times where I've e-mailed them and didn't get a response, only to have them respond when I e-mailed them about something else a few months later. So if they don't reply, don;t lose hope; just try back later.

I don't know how much information (if any) about those actors, but I wouldn't be surprised if they mentioned Godfrey Ho's work with My Way or the Hong Kong Film Academy. Maybe you can e-mail Mr. Ho through the academy (I linked to them in thread that I linked to as "Godfrey Ho goodness")?

[Guest the golden dragon]

Godfrey Ho's fight scenes were so intense and CRISP is the way I will attempt to describe his technique.

Thats why I loved his movies.

I can get past all of the cheezy elements associated with his movies.

It the intensity that always grabed me.

GD

[Guest morgoth]

Yeah, and he was a great editor too:lol

[Guest Takano2002]

Godfrey Ho's fight scenes were so intense and CRISP is the way I will attempt to describe his technique.

For godsake, aren't you aware that Godfrey Ho DID NOT direct any of these movies? These are the the work of several korean directors....Ho only supervised the english dubbings and recuts for export...

[Guest sheba]

hi all,

first of all many tnx for the infos. Im also a huge fan of everything that has Ho, Tang or Lai in its credits:D

I was wondering if you guys could help me out make a list of Asso/Filmark/IFD classic kung fu movies.

here is what i have:

7 Star Grand Mantis (1983)

Assault of Final Rival (1978)

Brave in Kung Fu Shadow (1977)

Breakout from Oppression (1978)

Champ Against Champ (1983)

Dragon Against Vampire (1985)

Dragon, the Hero (1979) aka Dragon on Fire

Dragon on Fire

Dragon's Showdown (1986)

Duel Of The Tao Tough (1982)

Duel of Ultimate Weapons (1983)

Dynamite Shaolin Heroes (1977)

Eagle vs. Silver Fox (1980)

Firefist of the Incredible Dragon (1983)

Fist of Golden Monkey (1983)

Fury in the Shaolin Temple (1979)

Grand Master of Shaolin Kung Fu (1981)

Hard Bastard aka Deadly Kung Fu Factor (1981) aka Raging Rivals

Incredible Shaolin Thunderkick (1982)

Invincible Obsessed Fighter (1983)

Leopard Fist Ninja (1982)

Magnificent Natural Fist (198X)

Magnificent Wonderman (1979)

Mantis Vs the Falcon Claws (1983)

Martial Monks of Shaolin Temple (1983)

Masters of Tiger Crane aka Raging Tiger (1983)

Offensive Shaolin Longfist (1983) AKA Deadly Shaolin Longfist

Raiders of Buddhist Kung Fu (1982)

Revenge of the Drunken Master (1984)

Rivals of the Silver Fox (1982)

Secret Ninja, Roaring Tiger (1982)

Shaolin: The Blood Mission (1984)

Snake Strikes Back (1981)

Snakefist of Buddhist Dragon (1979)

The Magnificent (1978)

The Shaolin Drunk Monkey (1985)

Warriors of Kung Fu (1982)

Zombie Rivals aka Gravedigger (198X)

and here are the movies that i dont have but im aware of:

10 Shaolin Disciples

8 Diagram Fighter

Blood of the Dragon Peril (1980)

Bruce Lee's Ways of Kung Fu (1982)

Coil of the Snake (1983)

Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (1976) aka The Dragon Lives Again

Dragon of Shaolin (1984)

Dragon, the Young Master (1978) aka The Deadly Silver Ninja

Dragon's Snakefist (1979) aka Iron Head

Dreadnaught Rivals (1983)

Eagle's Claw Champion

Golden Dragon, Silver Snake (1979)

Hands of Death (1987)

Hands of Lightning (1982)

Hong Kong (1979) aka Raiding Party

Justice of the Dragon (1982)

King Boxer 2 aka Treasure of Bruce Lee (1980)

Rage of the Dragon (1979) aka Mission for the Dragon

Rivals of the Dragon (1980)

Secret Executioners (1982) aka The Trouble-solving Broker AKA Buddhist Fist and Tiger Claws

Shaolin Fist Fighter (1980)

Strike of the Thunderkick Tiger (1978)

The Dragon The Odds (1979)

The Invincible From Hell (1981)

Thousand Miles Escort (1976)

im sure there are a few that i missed.

there may be some mistakes (one gets easily confused with all the aka-s and stuff) so feel free to point em out.

anyway, great thread and please help me out!

Cheers!!

[Guest Chinatown Kid]

Seems like I saw the film Raging Rivals aka Hard Bastard at the drive-in movies in the early 80's under the title Hands of Lightning. Your sure right about the aka's, with 3 different titles for the same film it definately gets confusing! :\

[Guest sheba]

yeah looks like Raging Rivals and Hard Bastard are the same movie, still have to check out Hands of Lightning

tnx!

[Guest houndslow]

1-queens golden commandos

2-royal warriors

3-kickboxer from hell

theres another 3 for you sheba m8

[Guest palplathune]

Godfrey Ho's lovers will certainly appreciate this interview:

www.hkcinemagic.com/en/page.asp?aid=230

[Guest morgoth]

Thanks!!!!