Word: kung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pros will also be aided by some volunteers: a pair of busybody spinsters called The Snoop Sisters (Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick) and The Magician (Bill Bixby), an all-American vaudevillian version of the nonviolent Kung-Fu, who conquers evil with birds and bunnies from his hatful of tricks...
...plot of Five Fingers, such as it is, involves the rivalry between two schools of Kung Fu: the good guys are handsome, the bad guys ugly. Dubbed in a kind of pidgin hip-"Hey, whadda you guys doin' here?" the hero asks at one point-the film makes no attempt to synchronize speech to lip movements, and a character can go on talking long after his mouth has closed. Not that it matters, considering the low level of the dialogue. Still, the picture is harmless fun, and the violence seems no more real-or scary-than the POWs...
...industry of much of Asia. From 46 acres of outdoor sets, sound stages and pagodas overlooking Hong Kong's Clear Water Bay, Run Run, 67, the creative half of the team, churns out about 40 films a year at an average cost of $ 180,000, many of them Kung Fu kickers like Five Fingers. Runme, 73, then shows them in their 141 theaters...
Though the Shaw brothers have been making films since the mid-'20s, the only Western distribution their Kung Fu movies used to have was in the Chinatowns of Europe and America. Last January, however. Run Run decided to peddle his Kung Fu movies to a wider audience. "American people always love action," he says to explain his Great Leap Forward. "Hollywood made lots of money with cowboys until Italians made cowboy pictures with more action. Next came James Bond." He adds proudly: "Now from Hong Kong comes Kung...
...fold to give Run Run and Runme a run for their money. "It's like Chinese food," says Run Run. "When Americans taste it, they like it." Indeed they do. In one recent week, the three top-grossing films in the U.S. were a trio of brothers-in-Kung Fu: Five Fingers, Fists of Fury and Deep Thrust: The Hand of Death...