“Lee legend cheapened,” screamed a headline in the South China Morning Post in 1978, highlighting film critic Noel Parrott’s distaste for Game of Death , the disastrous movie which posthumously cut 11 minutes of unseen Lee fight footage into a movie with a trashy storyline, foreign actors and Lee lookalikes made to cash in on the star’s fame. “With Game.
Bruce Lee's debut Hong Kong martial arts movie The Big Boss made him an instant star in Hong Kong. Opening on the last day of October, 1971, it drew full houses for its seven daily screenings and took HK$3.2 million (S$558,200) at the box office during its 19-day run. It made a million of those in just two days, and.
Although it’s almost lost to film history, Hong Kong’s Golden Harvest studios was very active in international film production during the 1970s. Spurred by the worldwide success of their Bruce Lee films, Golden Harvest moved into English language-productions such as Amsterdam Kill , which featured Robert Mitchum, and Night Games , a sex fantasy by French erotica specialist Roger Vadim..