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form y separately published work icon The Man from Hong Kong single work   film/TV   thriller   crime  
Alternative title: The Dragon Flies
Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 The Man from Hong Kong
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'When Inspector Fang's charge, a Chinese drug-smuggler, is murdered before he extradites him back to Hong Kong, he decides to stay in Australia to crack a narcotics ring. '

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 27/6/2013)

Notes

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Note: Some sources credit Yu Wang as director of the 'Hong Kong version': no further information is available on the difference, if any, in versions.

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Adventures in the B Movie Trade Brian Trenchard-Smith , United States of America (USA) : Brian Trenchard-Smith , 2020 20704470 2020 single work autobiography

'Follow the daredevil adventures of Anglo Australian film maker - and Ozploitation pioneer - Brian Trenchard-Smith through a 50 year career dedicated to giving his audience thrills, spills, laughs and gasps. "The Man From Hong Kong", "Turkey Shoot," " Dead End Drive In", "Siege Of Firebase Gloria", "Stunt Rock", "Leprechaun 3 & 4," and Nicole Kidman's first film "BMX Bandits" have earned his work a cult following. His TV output includes "Silk Stalkings"," Five Mile Creek", "Tarzan", "Flipper", "Chemistry". The Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Quentin Tarantino dubbed him his " favorite obscure director....great energy, great sense of humor." Brian Trenchard-Smith's wry, insightful tales of the creative challenges of low budget movie making all over the world is both a personal journey and a portrait of his era.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

The Man from Hong Kong Rewatched – Chopsocky Fun at a Cracking Pace Luke Buckmaster , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 January 2016;

— Review of The Man from Hong Kong Brian Trenchard-Smith , 1975 single work film/TV
Kung Fu Killers Brian Trenchard-Smith , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Perspectives Essays 2010;

'My one hour documentary World Of Kung Fu (1973) was a ratings success for the Seven Network, so I quickly sold a sequel concept to Channel Nine, this time 75 minutes for a 90 minute slot. The film would follow Australian stuntman Grant Page going to Hong Kong to learn more about kung fu, and to find who would succeed the late great Bruce Lee as Asia's top martial arts star.

A one page sizzle sheet, and my relationship with the Nine Network (for whom I had previously been the on-air promo producer before starting my own production company) was enough to get me a verbal acquisition deal from Nine's Len Mauger. In those days an executive's word was his bond.' (Introduction)

See also:

'Battling It Out Kung Fu Style', Australian Women's Weekly, 1 May 1974, p.21/

The Man from Hong Kong in Sydney, 1975 Meaghan Morris , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004; (p. 235-266)
Australia's Role in the Global Kung Fu Trend : The Man from Hong Kong Stephen Teo , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , September-October no. 16 2001; Senses of Cinema , March no. 62 2012;

— Review of The Man from Hong Kong Brian Trenchard-Smith , 1975 single work film/TV
Australia's Role in the Global Kung Fu Trend : The Man from Hong Kong Stephen Teo , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , September-October no. 16 2001; Senses of Cinema , March no. 62 2012;

— Review of The Man from Hong Kong Brian Trenchard-Smith , 1975 single work film/TV
The Man from Hong Kong Rewatched – Chopsocky Fun at a Cracking Pace Luke Buckmaster , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 January 2016;

— Review of The Man from Hong Kong Brian Trenchard-Smith , 1975 single work film/TV
The Man from Hong Kong in Sydney, 1975 Meaghan Morris , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004; (p. 235-266)
Kung Fu Killers Brian Trenchard-Smith , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Perspectives Essays 2010;

'My one hour documentary World Of Kung Fu (1973) was a ratings success for the Seven Network, so I quickly sold a sequel concept to Channel Nine, this time 75 minutes for a 90 minute slot. The film would follow Australian stuntman Grant Page going to Hong Kong to learn more about kung fu, and to find who would succeed the late great Bruce Lee as Asia's top martial arts star.

A one page sizzle sheet, and my relationship with the Nine Network (for whom I had previously been the on-air promo producer before starting my own production company) was enough to get me a verbal acquisition deal from Nine's Len Mauger. In those days an executive's word was his bond.' (Introduction)

See also:

'Battling It Out Kung Fu Style', Australian Women's Weekly, 1 May 1974, p.21/

y separately published work icon Adventures in the B Movie Trade Brian Trenchard-Smith , United States of America (USA) : Brian Trenchard-Smith , 2020 20704470 2020 single work autobiography

'Follow the daredevil adventures of Anglo Australian film maker - and Ozploitation pioneer - Brian Trenchard-Smith through a 50 year career dedicated to giving his audience thrills, spills, laughs and gasps. "The Man From Hong Kong", "Turkey Shoot," " Dead End Drive In", "Siege Of Firebase Gloria", "Stunt Rock", "Leprechaun 3 & 4," and Nicole Kidman's first film "BMX Bandits" have earned his work a cult following. His TV output includes "Silk Stalkings"," Five Mile Creek", "Tarzan", "Flipper", "Chemistry". The Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Quentin Tarantino dubbed him his " favorite obscure director....great energy, great sense of humor." Brian Trenchard-Smith's wry, insightful tales of the creative challenges of low budget movie making all over the world is both a personal journey and a portrait of his era.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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