Enter the Dragon
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IMDB rating: 7.40 Plot: Hong Kong circa 1973. Lee, a member of a Shaolin Temple, is a master of the physical and spiritual disciplines of the martial arts, and is being visited by Braithwaite, a British law officer. Lee has been invited to a tri-annual martial arts tournament held on an island owned by Han, a reclusive billionaire who was once a member of the Temple but has now become a renegade. Braithwaite believes Han uses his tournaments as cover for narcotic and prostitution activities. Lee reluctantly agrees to enter the tournament, but his reluctance to confront Han disappears when a Shaolin monk reveals that during the previous staging of this tournament, he and Lee’s sister were accosted by several toughs led by Han’s personal bodyguard, an American named O’Hara. In the ensuing confrontation the monk cut a deep scar on O’Hara’s face but Lee’s sister ultimately perished, and at her gravesite Lee vowes revenge for her death. Also attending the tournament are two American martial arts experts, John Roper and Kelly Williams, who served together in Vietnam and took differing paths toward martial arts upon their discharge – Roper is on the run from Mafia gambling debt collectors, while Williams was accosted by two racist cops whom he’d dispatched before stealing their car to escape. All three will soon find themselves at the mercy of Han and his army of martial arts fighters as he protects his underground factory of narcotics and prostitution. |
Actors: Lee Bruce,Saxon John,Shih Kien,Kelly Jim,Wall Robert,Yeung Bolo,Weeks Geoffrey,Archer Peter,Yan Ho Lee,Kent Allan,Keller William,Action,Thriller,
Bruce Lee movie question?
Why was there no enter the dragon in the Bruce Lee movie boxed set and also why do some people say Bruce Lee was in 4 famous movies but isn’t it 5? (I couldn’t find any answers)
"Enter the Dragon" was a Hollywood film made by Warner Brothers in association with Raymond Chow’s Golden Harvest films which is based in Hong Kong. Bruce’s other movies were Golden Harvest productions. Maybe your boxed set was not a Warner Brother’s release, hence they couldn’t include it in the set for fear of a lawsuit from WB for copyright infringement. Technically, Bruce Lee starred in 4 finished movies:
1.) "The Big Boss"
2.) "Fist of Fury" a.k.a. "The Chinese Connection"
3.) "Way of the Dragon" a.k.a. Return of the Dragon" with Chuck Norris
and
4.) "Enter the Dragon"
The 5th movie you are referring to is "Game of Death" which Bruce wasn’t able to finish shooting because he died after filming only a few minutes worth of fight scenes(his fights with the Korean Hapkido master, with Dan Inosanto and Kareem Abdul Jabbar) the rest of the movie featured a Bruce Lee look alike and some edited footages of Bruce in scenes that were cut from his previous movies, this movie was made by Golden Harvest in an attempt to try to milk a dying cow down to it’s last drop and ride the Bruce Lee mania bandwagon that boomed in the years after his death.
Shienaran | Feb 03, 2010
1st answerer knows his stuff!
I can’t add anything to the answer but just to say Enter The Dragon had the best production values with Hollywood money, but I think that Fists Of Fury had some of his best fight scenes as they didn’t seem to slow the action down so much for the camera. Some of his moves eg when fighting the karate school and the tall "Russian" guy (actually one of Lee’s students) are so quick you can’t believe it, and if it wasn’t for dvd you would probably miss it the first time. Of course the Chuck Norris fight in Way Of The Dragon is also among his best ever.
Peter | Feb 04, 2010
Tags: 1973, Action, Archer Peter, Keller William, Kelly Jim, Kent Allan, Lee Bruce, Saxon John, Shih Kien, Thriller, Wall Robert, Weeks Geoffrey, Yan Ho Lee, Yeung Bolo
