1975 - THE MAN FROM HONG KONG, excellent action film

The director Brian Tenchard Smith's first film is an action and stunt movie overload.  The plot is the simple hook of sending a fish out of water Hong Kong cop to Australia to take down an a drug kingpin.

 The film's star Jimmy Wang Yu was kind of the replacement for Bruce Lee who was planned as the original star.  Wang Yu is quite a character in his own right a tough actor with a short temper not afraid to get in a brawl with anyone in real life.

Anyway, back to the film.  Since this was Trenchard Smith's first film  he loaded it up with lots of shooting, fights, car chases etc.  The film doesn't have a dull moment.  Surprisingly the film didn't do that well commercially.  This was attributed to the amount of female nudity which apparently limited the viewing audience. 

 The cast is loaded with Australian actors chiefly Hugh Keays-Byrne and Roger Ward from the first Mad Max film.  One time James Bond George Lazenby is the villain.

The film runs 106 minutes and was written by Brian Trenchard-Smith.