Member Cognoscente Posted July 13, 2021 Member Share Posted July 13, 2021 You would think that Jimmy would have stepped up his game after Bruce came onto the scene. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted July 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted July 17, 2021 On 8/12/2008 at 1:36 AM, One Armed Boxer said: I'm ashamed to say I've never seen the One Armed Boxer...always thought I'd wait for a proper release uncut and subbed, so have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I may never see it! Reading my own comment from 2008, I’m reminded that as kung-fu fans we should never give up hope. Miracles do happen! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted July 17, 2021 Member Share Posted July 17, 2021 On 7/13/2021 at 11:41 AM, Cognoscente said: You would think that Jimmy would have stepped up his game after Bruce came onto the scene. Considering he just clobbered the stuntmen for real, maybe he did! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member saltysam Posted July 17, 2021 Member Share Posted July 17, 2021 Think i might have to have a Sunday Lazenby triple feature of this,Queen's Ransom and Stoner 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Django Posted July 18, 2021 Member Share Posted July 18, 2021 I like this film alot, Jimmy's style of fighting suits a crime thriller like this very good and the stunts are over the top! It would be cool though if Sammo's role of a villain would develop further. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cognoscente Posted July 18, 2021 Member Share Posted July 18, 2021 It's ironic that Enter the Dragon had his best fighting role in a '70s international production. He was a shadow of his ETD self in Game of Death, and his role in The Man from Hong Kong wasn't up to scratch. It's also ironic that Jackie didn't work as a stuntman on this movie considering that Australia is his second home, and he mentioned in an Impact interview that he regarded Jimmy as an older brother. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cognoscente Posted August 7, 2021 Member Share Posted August 7, 2021 From #13 of Kung Fu Monthly. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cognoscente Posted August 9, 2022 Member Share Posted August 9, 2022 From the December '75 issue of Photoplay. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member dionbrother Posted August 10, 2022 Member Share Posted August 10, 2022 Actually prefer this film to any Bruuuuuuuuce Lee movie. Jimmy was doing his own stunts in modern action movies long before Jackie Chan made it his gimmick. It's an underrated, blast of a movie that was completely mismarketed in America. Oh, and that fraud Ric Meyers hates Wang Yu for some odd reason. To hate the man who created the genre you've conned people into believing you are some sort of expert takes some deceptive gumption. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted August 10, 2022 Member Share Posted August 10, 2022 On 7/18/2021 at 10:32 AM, Cognoscente said: It's ironic that Enter the Dragon had his best fighting role in a '70s international production. He was a shadow of his ETD self in Game of Death, and his role in The Man from Hong Kong wasn't up to scratch. It's also ironic that Jackie didn't work as a stuntman on this movie considering that Australia is his second home, and he mentioned in an Impact interview that he regarded Jimmy as an older brother. MFHK was prior to Jimmy and Jackie working together. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cognoscente Posted August 11, 2022 Member Share Posted August 11, 2022 There's an interview that Jackie did for the January 1996 issue of Impact where he implied that they knew each other for a longer time. Impact: The last time I can remember a Chinese crew coming to shoot a Kung Fu movie in Australia was for the Wang Yu film Man from Hong Kong, in which Wang Yu fought Samo Hung on Ayers Rock. Did you work on that film as a stuntman? Jackie: No. I worked for the same company but I was doing a film in Korea at that time. Impact: You mentioned that you never had pressure put on you to make films, but you did make a film for Wang Yu in Taiwan, Island of Fire. Why did do you that? Jackie: Because of Wang Yu. He watched me grow up. When I was young, he was already a big star. You already know Wang Yu's (Triad) background. For all those years, he treated me like his younger brother. He asked me to come and help him, to be a guest star, but there wasn't any pressure. Some other people, yes. Not me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted August 11, 2022 Member Share Posted August 11, 2022 I think that is a reference to Killer Meteors, which is after Man from Hong Kong. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cognoscente Posted August 27, 2022 Member Share Posted August 27, 2022 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted August 31, 2022 Member Share Posted August 31, 2022 Titbits once covered Terror of Mechagodzilla of all films! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member shukocarl1441996347 Posted September 1, 2022 Member Share Posted September 1, 2022 On 8/27/2022 at 5:56 PM, Cognoscente said: That's the best piece of chamois leather I've ever seen! 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Member Cognoscente Posted September 22, 2022 Member Share Posted September 22, 2022 Back to what Jackie said about why he couldn't work on the film, it got me thinking about something that hasn't been specified really well in either of his books - when he lived in Australia during his two sojourns there. In his first book, Jackie (or Jeff Yang) claimed that he was 19 when he initially left HK for Australia. His 20th birthday was in April 1974. He also claimed that his first Australian tenure lasted for six months before he reunited with Sammo to do The Hand of Death, which was released in July 1976 (the same month when New Fist of Fury was released). In Never Grow Up, Jackie claimed he was in Australia for "only several months" before he reunited with Sammo to do the John Woo movie. Both books trot out the same narrative: this movie being the only thing that Jackie could get his hands on before he went to Australia again. In the second book, Jackie says: "I'd been back in Hong Kong for only a short while and had hoped to make a name for myself before returning. Instead, I might have to beat a shameful retreat from Hong Kong and slip back into Australia in disgrace." Regarding the time that Jackie spent in HK between his two Australian sojourns, there are no references in either book to All in the Family (released in February 1975). This film would have been made around the same time when The Man from Hong Hong began filming: the fall of 1974 i.e. when Jackie claimed to have been too busy working on a movie in Korea. There are also two other movies that he appeared in before New Fist of Fury - No End of Surprises (released in December 1975), and The Himalayan (released in February 1976). In the Jeff Yang book, there is an anecdote about Jackie meeting Willie Chan for the first time at Charlie Chin's wedding, which happened in October 1975. This was prior to Jackie returning to Australia where he received a telegram from Willie about the Lo Wei deal. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Member shukocarl1441996347 Posted October 7, 2022 Member Share Posted October 7, 2022 I just finished watching this (I haven't seen this in a couple of years) and I still think it's one of the best action films of the 70's... I don't think Brian Trenchard Smith ever made a better film. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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