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Showing posts with label 1976. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1976. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Black Dragon vs. Yellow Tiger [a.k.a. The Growling Tiger] (1976)


















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Starring Tong Lung playing the cousin to Bruce Lee's character in Way Of The Dragon. The thugs from Rome are back and ready to take it out on anyone that knows Kung Fu. Tong Lung does an over the top Dragon Lee like imitation of Bruce Lee! Fun to watch! The finale is a reminiscence of Bruce Lee/Chuck Norris finale in Way of the Dragon, this time against a tall Black fighter (Grandmaster Clint Robinson) looking like a TaeKwonDo stylist. A true hidden classic in bruceploitation movies following Bruce Lee’s death in the mid 1970s.  

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

The Super Weapon (1976)






























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For the serious Martial Artist, "The Super Weapon" is the documentary that boasts no trick photography or special effects. You'll see in great depth the difference between the various kinds of fighting such as Karate, Kung Fu, Jui Jitsu, Tae Kwan Do, Tai Chi, Aikido and others. Tasks that appear supernatural to us are mere control tools in the hands of masters. 

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Nightmare in Badham County (1976)


































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Deborah Raffin and Lynne Moody (Scream, Blacula, Scream) stars as two young attractive college students who become enmeshed in a trap of local prejudice and greed when their car breaks down outside a small, sleep town. Insulted by the girls' rejection of his amorous advances, the local sheriff (Chuck Connors), arrests them for trespassing and prostitution. After a mockery of a "trail," they are sentenced to a womens' prison farm run by brutal guards and a sex-crazed superintendent. Cut off from contact with friends and family, the girls realize that they are at the mercy of a corrupt criminal justice "system," designed to supply the local farms with cheap prison labor. Their only hope is to escape this nightmare, at the risk of their lives. Nightmare in Badham County exposes the terror and corruption of a vicious tyranny that actually exist in certain communities where "justice" is no more than a charade for greed. It offers a behind-the-scenes-look at life on a womens' prison farm that is as realistic as it is shocking. The result is gripping action, drama, and suspense.