CANNON MONTH 2: The Godfather Squad (1974)
Xiangang xiao jiao fu was released in the U.S. by Cannon as The Godfather Squad. Cops and Interpol agents are being killed all over the world by the Carrol crime family. Wang Liu (Bruce Leung) saves one of them in Hong Kong and gets targeted by the Carrols, who decide to make a kung fu movie […]
CANNON MONTH 2: The Butterfly Affair (1971)
Inspector Silva (Stanley Baker, A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin) is a former private eye and now a surveyor and guard for the interests of a diamond company Vista Alegra, Venezuela. This is a town where diamonds come right out of the mud. It’s also where French singer Popsy Pop (Claudia Cardinale, Once Upon a Time in the […]
CANNON MONTH 2: The Blockhouse (1973)
On D-Day, a mixed group of forced labourers being held by German forces take shelter from the bombardment inside a bunker which gets blocked in by a bombing run. They have enough food to last for years and it turns out that they’re trapped there for the rest of their lives, as they wait and […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Naughty Wives (1973)
The UK movie Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman was released in the U.S. by Cannon as Naughty Wives, which is definitely a dirtier if not better label for this. David Clyde (Brendan Price, who was also in the British sex comedy The Amorous Milkman) gets a job as a vacuum salesman and soon finds that he’s being chased […]
CANNON MONTH 2: The Godfathers of Hong Kong (1973)
Man zhou ren was released as The Godfathers of Hong Kong in the U.S. by Cannon. According to the Lost Media Wiki, the Cannon English dub of the film is just about lost. The only known home video release with English audio was a heavily abridged 8mm print release by Ken Films. It’s on YouTube courtesy of […]
88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Flying Guillotine 2 (1978)
If there’s a weapon to be considered the strangest in the films of Shaw Brothers, the flying guillotine would be it. From 1975’s Flying Guillotine to the 1976 sequel Master of the Flying Guillotine (which is also a sequel to One-Armed Boxer), 1977’s Taiwan-made entry Fatal Flying Guillotine and this movie, 1978’s Flying Guillotine 2: Palace Carnage and Vengeful Courage, also made […]
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