Summer grab-bag, part one
As usual, there’s no coherent pattern to what I spend my time watching. In the past few months, I given my overtaxed attention to quite a few movies from the ’70s and ’80s – British sex comedies and cop movies, Italian […]
Review: The Prodigal Son (1981)
Director: Sammo Hung
Cast: Yuen Biao, Frankie Chan Fan-Kei, Lam Ching-Ying, Sammo Hung, Peter Chan Lung,
Yuen Biao
Frankie Chan Fan-Kei
Lam Ching-Ying
Sammo Hung
Peter Chan Lung
Plot: A rich man's son believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher.
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