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with Black folks (incidentally, Lee's films have played largely to Black, Puerto Rican, and
Chinese audiences in America. Indeed, when "The Return of the Dragon" was released it grossed an unbelievable $ 185,000 in one week at two theaters in the Black section of Chicago) the audience cheered wildly for Lee almost as if they were witnessing a prizefight and not viewing a film.
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Before long, the gangsters appear at the restaurant and threaten the customers away while Tang is using the bathroom. Upset by Tang's poor timing, the staff question his skill and the usefulness of his style. When the gangsters later return, the staff engage the thugs in a fight, only to be beaten.
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Ho also recruits a world-class martial artist named Colt and leads some of the restaurant staff to an isolated spot under the pretence of a truce, where the two martial artists ambush them. These initially defeat the staff until Tang intervenes and leaves the staff to finish the last one. Ho lures
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atop his dead body as a gesture of respect, before discovering Ho and chasing after him out of the
Colosseum. As Tang and Ho return to the ambush site, the mob boss arrives and shoots both Ho and Uncle Wang. Led by Chen, the police arrest the boss as he tries to kill Tang. With the matter finally
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Lee first found success in The Big Boss and followed that with Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon which grossed an outstanding 100,000,000 dollars and firmly established itself as one of the world's all-time top films in commercial terms. Lee went on to top this with The Way of the Dragon and the
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magazine's list "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010. According to Gene Freese, the final fight between Lee and Norris is considered "by many to be the greatest movie fight ever" filmed. It has been listed as one of the greatest fight scenes of all time in a number of publications.
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America". What makes it particularly memorable is the treatment of the fight in the
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reported a 92% favourable critics' response, commenting on Lee's work that it shows "a surprising change of pace from his usual hard-hitting action fare because it favors humor as much as it does kung-fu". Upon release,
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Tang warns Ho not to return and the thugs leave the restaurant. The staff celebrate their victory, but the gang boss threatens to have Tang killed unless he leaves by
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cameras had barely stopped rolling when he began what was to be his final film Game of Death. (...) Now director Robert Clouse has completed Game of Death.
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was the company's first film. As well as acting as its producer, Lee also wrote the script, directed the film and played percussion on the soundtrack.
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at #12), with 4,002,004 ticket sales. In Spain, the film sold 2,345,259 tickets. In
Germany, it was the 13th highest-grossing film of 1975, with
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was released in Hong Kong on 30 December 1972, and in the United States in August 1974. The film went on to gross an estimated
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adjusted for inflation), earning 1,000 times its budget. It was the highest-grossing Hong Kong film up until Lee's next film,
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during its initial run. With later re-releases, the film went on to gross a total box office revenue of
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of 1975. In South Korea, the film sold 182,530 tickets in the capital city of
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Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense
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appears in the film briefly as one of the mafia thugs.
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2018:Bell, Nicholas (25 August 2020).
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997:List of Hong Kong films of 1972
503:Tang away to fight Colt at the
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2728:The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu
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1941:Waugh, Darin, ed. (1978).
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992:Chuck Norris filmography
877:11th Golden Horse Awards
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53:Traditional Chinese
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2609:The Legend of Bruce Lee
2593:The Curse of the Dragon
2091:McFarland & Company
1949:. Kiazen Publications.
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1417:. pp. 19–43 (35).
1157:"The Way of the Dragon"
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883:and was recognised for
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1405:Desser, David (2002).
1332:"劉偉強談香港電影時代拐點不再讓時裝片孤單"
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1074:Thomas, Bruce (1994).
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840:Reception and legacy
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607:as Thug (uncredited)
595:as Japanese karateka
562:Tommy Chen as Thomas
383:Return of the Dragon
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2672:The Lost Interview
2550:The Real Bruce Lee
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