Enter the Dragon

Overview

The hands-down best of the Bruce Lee kung fu vehicles, Enter the Dragon finds Lee infiltrating the island stronghold of suspected drug kingpin Shih Kien. Ostensibly on the island to enter a martial arts contest, Lee finds himself matched against Kien's fiercest henchman, Bob Wall. He kills Wall, but is unable to escape the many booby traps festooning the island. The final battle royale pits Lee against Kien, and Lee's former army buddy John Saxon against the formidable Yang Tse. There's more to the plot than that, of course, but action fans of 1973 weren't interested in the intrigues--they wanted to "cut to the chase" and revel in Bruce Lee's split-second chopsocky technique. Enter the Dragon is so good that it even survives the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker parody in Kentucky Fried Movie (1977).

Product Details

Release Date:	02/08/2011
UPC:	0883929164066
Original Release:	1973
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00
Sales rank:	10,667

Special Features

Making-of featurette Blood and Steel: making of Enter the Dragon; Personal profile Bruce Lee: In His Own Words; Vintage featurette cc; location: Hong Kong with Enter the Dragon; Interview gallery featuring Linda Lee Cadwell; Commentary by producer Paul Heller; Backyard Workout with Bruce: vintage home movies

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bruce Lee	Lee
John Saxon	Roper
Jim Kelly	Williams,Actor
Shih Kien	Han
Bob Wall	Ohara,Oharra
Anna Capri	Tania,Tania
Betty Chung	Mei Ling,Han Traitor
Geoffrey Weeks	Braithwaite
Bolo Yeung	Bolo
Peter Archer	Parsons
Ho Lee Wan	Old Man
Marlene Clark	Secretary
Angela Mao	Su Lin
Li Jen Ho	le vieil homme
Allan Kent	le golfeur
Bill Keller	le flic de L.A.,Actor
Mickey Caruso	le flic de L.A.
Pat E. Johnson	Hood
Darnell Garcia	Hood
Mike Bissell	Hood
Hidy Ochiai	Actor
Linda Lee Cadwell	l'nvité à la fête
Billy Chan	le garde des cavernes,le voyou en prison,l'invité à la fête,Tourney Referee
Ling Wei Chen	le guardien
Chok Chow Cheung	le moine
Roy Chiao	Shaolin Abbott
Alan Chung San Chui	le guardien
Ho Lee Yan	Actor
Mykelti Williamson	Actor
Yang Tse	Actor
Chuck Norris	Messenger
Chi Lau	Actor
Sammo Hung	Fighter
Lalo Schifrin	Composer

Technical Credits

Michael Allin

Robert Clouse	Director
Raymond Chow	Producer
Paul M. Heller	Producer,Producer
Jerry Weintraub	Producer,Producer
Michael Allin	Screenwriter
Bruce Lee	Stunts
Leonard Ho	Producer
Ping Wong	Sound Effects
Andre Morgan	Producer
Mickey Caruso	Stunts
Robert Lin	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

Martial arts phenomenon Bruce Lee never made a perfect movie, but his first (and last) English-speaking star vehicle comes closest to capturing his electricity and charisma. A US-Hong Kong co-production intended to introduce Lee to an international audience, Enter the Dragon has Lee sharing screen time with two co-stars, veteran John Saxon and American karate champion Jim Kelly, but Lee dominates the movie as assuredly as he does the multitudes of bad guys thrown his way. The formulaic story, a crude James Bond riff with a hint of blaxploitation outrageousness, is wearying in the early going, but it hardly matters as the dynamite fighting sequences begin to dominate near the halfway point. Though it lacks the insane kineticism of the subsequent Hong Kong martial arts renaissance of the 1980s and 1990s, the movie is nicely photographed, and Robert Clouse's direction keeps the attention focused on Lee's remarkable presence. The hall-of-mirrors finale, in which Clouse and Lee gleefully update Orson Welles' classic sequence from The Lady From Shanghai, has to be seen to be believed. Lee even shows a bit of acting ability in some of the quieter moments, but his tragic death at age 33, about a month before Enter the Dragon's US premiere, would put an end to his film career.