Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- Version: 2020 Twilight Time Edition
- SKU: TWILIGHT391-BR
- Format: Blu-ray
- UPC: 700261485157
- Street Date: 12/28/21
- PreBook Date: 11/09/21
- Label: TWILIGHT TIME »
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- Run Time: 106 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: 5.1 SURROUND
- Year of Production: 1975
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 44
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Rebecca Gilling
- Hugh Keays-Byrne
- George Lazenby
- Ros Spiers
- Frank Thring
- Roger Ward
- JImmy Wang Yu
- Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Product Assets
The Man From Hong Kong (aka The Dragon Flies)
Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong.
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Strap in for a spectacular example from the golden age of "Ozploitation" moviemaking: writer/director/genre master Brian Trenchard-Smith's full-bore action caper The Man from Hong Kong (1975, first seen in the U.S. as The Dragon Flies). It blazingly showcases the savvy grit and sleek fighting moves of two icons - Hong Kong martial-arts superstar Jimmy Wang Yu and one-time James Bond portrayer George Lazenby - playing lawman/gangster antagonists in a battle-royal array of aerial, vehicular, and close-combat stunts exploding across a gleaming Sydney cityscape and executed with a mix of cool precision and edge-stretching luck that will leave you breathless.
Media
Bonus Materials
- Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Co-Star Hugh Keays-Byrne and Stunt Director Grant Page / Uncut Not Quite Hollywood Interviews with Co-Stars George Lazenby, Rebecca Gilling, and Roger Ward; Writer/Director Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Executive Producer David Hannay; and 2nd Unit Cameraman John Seale
- Original Trailer
Sales Points
- 'The Man from Hong Kong', originally released in the US as 'The Dragon Flies', is the debut 1975 action film written and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith (The Siege of Firebase Gloria, Dead End Drive-In)
- Stars Jimmy Wang Yu (Master of the Flying Guillotine) George Lazenby (OO7: On Her Majesty's Secret Service) and Sammo Hung (Ip Man 2, Game of Death)
- 'The Man From Hong Kong' first film to be made as an international coproduction between Australia and Hong Kong, it serves as a satire of the James Bond and Dirty Harry franchises, combined with tropes of the concurrent kung fu craze at the time.
- On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 7 reviews, and an average rating of 7.5/10.
- Editor Peter Cheung won the Golden Horse Film Festival Award for Best Film Editing.
Press Quotes
A slick, shallow, well-photographed Australian-Chinese movie which has substituted do-it-yourself decapitation with mass demolition.
—Los Angeles Times
A witless display of non-stop mayhem.
—The Observer
