Fist of Fear, Touch of Death
Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, also known as The Dragon and the Cobra, is a 1980 martial arts film set at the 1979 World Karate Championships at Madison Square Garden that will supposedly determine the successor to Bruce Lee. The film is hosted by Adolph Caesar. Bruce Lee was deceased before the film went into production, and any footage featuring Lee was taken from earlier films or television appearances. It is considered to be an exploitation film, exploiting Bruce Lees popularity, and the mystique surrounding his death.
From inside Madison Square Garden, Caesar discusses the competitors including Bill Louie, who, while in the ring, apparently pokes an opponents eyes out and flings them into the audience. He talks about the legacy of Bruce Lee, and shows what he describes as interview footage he did with Lee shortly before his death the next scene is footage of Lee from the TV show Longstreet with new dialogue awkwardly dubbed in. Then, Caeser flashes back to earlier in the day, where action star Fred Williamson seen having to traverse through a number of obstacles to get to the tournament while being repeatedly mistaken for Harry Belafonte. Next, Ron Van Clief is also profiled and interviewed. Van Clief is then seen saving a woman from being raped in a New York park.The middle section of the film is devoted to The Bruce Lee Story, a chronicle of Bruce Lees early years in China, where he is depicted as being karate crazy, much to the dismay of his parents. The footage from this section of the story is from the 1957 Bruce Lee film Thunderstorm, which has also been redubbed. This act of the presentation purports that Lee was learning karate to live up to the legacy of his great grandfather, who was one of Chinas greatest Samurai masters an anachronism as China did not actually have Samurai, these were in fact Japanese warriors. The life of Lees grandfather is also portrayed in this act at alternating points, in scenes lifted from Invincible Super Chan. Later, Lee leaves home and lands a career as an actor. This segues into a scene of Bill Louie, dressed as Kato from The Green Hornet, saving two female joggers from being raped by a gang near the World War II memorial in Battery Park in broad daylight. This segment ends after Louie apparently murders the last conscious gang member with a throwing star. ........
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