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Zuijia paidang zhi nuhuang miling (1984)

Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Year of Production: 1984
Running Times: 81 mins (USA)     87 mins (UK)
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Cinema City Film Productions
Producer: Karl Mak, Dean Shek, Raymond Wong (uncredited)

SCRIPT
Screenplay: Raymond Wong
English Language Version Dialogue: Larry Dolgin

DIRECTION
Director: Hark Tsui

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Henry Chan (uncredited)

MUSIC
Music: Noel Quinlan (uncredited)
Song: Lynsey De Paul

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Nansun Shi

LOCATIONS
Locations: Hong Kong; China

CAST
Sam Hui (Sam Hong Kong)
Karl Maka (Albert Au)
Sylvia Chang (Superintendent Nancy Ho)
Peter Graves (Tom Collins)
Richard Kiel (Big G)
Jean Mersant
John Sham
Naomi Otsubo
Huguette Funfrock
Tsunehara Sogiyama (Oddjob)
Lerias Momeyer)
Charlie Cho (Tso)
Tat-wah Cho (Hua)
Neil Connery)
Ricky Hui (Puffer Fish)
Lowell Lo (subway driver)
Harold Sakata)
Hark Tsui (uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

Jewel thief King Kong is hired by what appear to be representatives of the Queen of England claiming that one of the crown jewels has been stolen and asking him to get it back. But not everything is quite as it seems and soon King Kong crosses paths with supercop Baldy again.

AVAILABILITY

Hong Kong
Laserdisc Distributor: Golden Cinema City

Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Zafiro Films S.A.

UK
Video Distributor: Thorn EMI (TVH9025552)

USA
Video Distributor: Home Box Office Home Video

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

France
Rating: U

Germany
Rating: 16

Norway
Rating: 15

UK
Rating: PG

TIMELINE

1984


November
21: France - theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Aces Go Places III: Our Man From Bond Street
Mad Mission III: Our Man From Bond Street
Mad Mission 3 - German title

007, nuestro hombre de Bond Street - Spanish title

Mad Mission 3 - pähkähullu tehtävä - Finnish title

Sprott oppdrag 3 - Norwegian video title

LINKS

SEQUEL TO
Zuijia paidang (1982)
Zuijia paidang daxian shentong (1983)

SEQUELS
Zuijia paidang zhi qianli jiu chaipo (1986)
Xin zuijia paidang (1989)
Zuijia paidang zhi zuijie paidang (1997)

SEE ALSO

Goldfinger (1964)
Mad Max (1979)
Mission: Impossible (1966)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Thunderball (1965)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Asian Trash Cinema no.1 p.5 (USA)
review

Eastern Heroes vol.2 no.4 pp.27, 29 (UK)
review

Fangoria no.108 p.45 (USA)
review

Video Watchdog no.32 p.7 (USA)
review

BOOKS

Asian Trash Cinema p.9
credits, review

KEYWORDS

sequels, secret agents, police, royalty, jewel thieves, jewels, spies, paris


Last Updated: 15 October, 2008

 


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