4/26/2014

The Big Boss/ 唐山大兄 (1971) or, The Foreman



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!

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.

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.

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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