Hot Potato (film)

Hot Potato also known as Twist the Tigers Tail is a 1976 action film written and directed by Oscar Williams. The film was a Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller production starring Jim Kelly. Jim Kelly also arranged his own fight scenes. Hot Potato was filmed on location in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It is a followup to Black Belt Jones. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Hot Potato begins in Chang Lan, a fictional country somewhere in east Asia. The villain Carter Rangoon Sam Hiona orchestrated the kidnapping of a U.S. senators daughter a Ms. June Dunbar Judith Brown. Rangoons demands were to see aid to Chang Lan or Ms. Dunbar would be executed. The U.S. was in a difficult situation. They were not welcome in that area of the world and had little influence in the region. They sent in whom the general Ron Prince described as their best man, Black Belt Jones Jim Kelly.Jones assembled a small force of mercenaries to assist in the task at hand. Johnny Chicago Geoffrey Benney, whose primary motivation in life was money, was the first the mercenaries introduced in the film. The duo of Jones and Chicago were joined by Pamala Irene Tsu, a Chang Lan operative who was to act as the groups interpreter and guide. She quickly proved her usefulness as a skilled fighter as she took on several goons refusing assistance from Jones and Chicago. Finally the group joins up with Rhino George Memmoli at a brothel. Rhino is a grotesque Italian from Texas with a passion for women and food. ........

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