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Bruce Lee's first big film, Wei Lo's The Big Boss |
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Workers start to disappear, when they discover their factory's drug-secret. But the new foreman won't stand for it! - He is determined to clean up the mess!
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A man with a purpose: Bruce Lee in Wei Lo's The Big Boss |
Bruce Lee's (Enter the Dragon (1973)) first big Hong Kong kung fu movie is a romantic, drug-themed plate of the best in Hong Kong martial arts.
Boss is very low-budget, but has cool intro-graphics, an exciting story and inventive fight scenes. - The flying dogs take the prize! (See it to believe it!)
After having SPOILER exterminated all the villains, the hero of Big Boss is imprisoned.
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Bruce Lee making one more of his countless, priceless facial expressions, in Wei Lo's The Big Boss |
- A cool kung fu movie, and the biggest Hong Kong movie hit ever at its time.
It exists with no less than 3 different scores and has also been sold in the US with the titles, The Chinese Connection, Fists of Fury and Fist of Fury, - erroneously so, as this is the title of a later Bruce Lee film.
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Another poster for the beloved film |
Big Boss is directed by Wei Lo (Fist of Fury (1972)) with uncredited direction by Chia-hsiang Wu (Divorce, Hong Kong Style (1968)).
Watch the inimitable Bruce Lee in his prime here in the film's trailer
Budget: Unknown
Box office: 3.1 mil. HK $ + 2.8 mil. $ in North American rentals
= Big hit (though with some uncertainty)
What do you think of The Big Boss?
What is your favorite Bruce Lee movie and why?
And your favorite non-Lee kung fu movie?
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