The beast, seven stories high and hailing from the himalayas. Mar 01, 2014 the mighty peking man is a 1977 film produced in hong kong by shaw brothers studio to capitalize on the craze surrounding the 1976 remake of king kong. King kong comes to hong kong in the mighty peking man, a uniquely shaw brothers spin on the ageless theme of beauty and the beast. The mighty peking man 1977 the mighty peking man 1977.
The film was originally released in the united states with the english dub in 1980 as goliathon the film was directed by ho meng hua and produced by runme shaw. Greece reissue title gorilanthropos, o atsalenios gigas. The film was originally released in the united states with the english dub in 1980. The film was directed by ho meng hua and produced by runme. If judged by conventional viewing standards, the mighty peking man is riddled with problems.
Xing xing wang the mighty peking man colossus of congo. The mighty peking man is a 1977 monster film produced by shaw brothers studio to capitalize on the craze surrounding. The tone veers wildly from kiddieshow goofiness to surprisingly adult sleaziness. The film immediately introduces us to the mighty peking man, a legendary guy in a gorilla suit that looks like a guy in a gorilla suit who emerges from the earth after an earthquake. The giant apeman costume is as hokey as youd expect, and the film s villains are liars, cruel and stupid. The effects are crappy, the script is worse, and the plot holes are big enough for a. Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the himalayas reaches fortune hunters in hong kong. Podcast the mighty peking man 1977 episode 81 decades. They travel to india to capture it, but wild animals and qu. Our group has watched a lot of bad movies together but very few have given us as much joy as mighty peking man. Words cannot describe this movie, it must be experienced. With the amount of hype being generated by the production of dino delaurentiiss 1976 king kong remake it wasnt at all surprising that such films as ape werent the only ones trying to cash in on the publicity, so a year later we got shaw brothers the makers of the awesome inframan and their big ape film the mighty peking man.
In that film agar promised lovers jeff bridges and jessica lange that kong will be captured alive if they help calm him down, only to send in helicopter gunships to. A giant ape called mighty peking man has emerged following an earthquake in the himalayas, and has made its way to the indian jungles. Titans of 60s and 70s hong kong cinema, the shaw brothers are bestknown for their many martialarts films, but mighty peking man is an exception. Kung fu martial arts, martial arts movies, cool posters, film posters, punk rock, new beverly cinema. Iranianbritish man plays monkey king character in peking opera full hd nba sports. Said catastrophe has released the enormous title creature some poor shlub in a hairy suit to crush some villagers.
The mighty peking man 1977 shaw brothers official trailer. A film that, and im sure this is entirely a coincidence, had been released the year before mighty peking man came out. An energetic, shameless attempt to cash in on the 1976 remake of king kong, mighty peking man varies that movies formula only by having the giant ape or in this case, apelike protohuman come. So mighty peking man finds himself in chains on the deck of a freighter, headed for hong kong. Greece transliterated isolatin1 title gorilanthropos, o tromos tis gis.
Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the. The giant apeman costume is as hokey as youd expect, and the films villains are liars, cruel and stupid. Danny lee, evelyne kraft, hangsheng wu, hsu shaochiang, ku feng, lin weitu, chen chengfeng running time. Smiths rating of the film the mighty peking man christopher r. Nov 01, 20 available on dvd as part of quentin tarantinos rolling thunder pictures triple feature, and also on bluray from japan warning, no english subtitles available with the japanese release, i finally got round to catching the mighty peking man. The first film led to a sequel the son of kong, an animated series, lots of ripoffs mighty joe young, konga, ape, the mighty peking man and years later inspired a pair of remakes not counting the campy kaiju films king kong vs. Cut back to mighty peking man who, oh my god, is still moving. Peking man homo erectus pekinensis, formerly known by the junior synonym sinanthropus pekinensis is a group of fossil specimens of homo erectus, dated from roughly 750,000 years ago, discovered in 192937 during excavations at zhoukoudian chou koutien near beijing at.
The film was originally released in the us in 1980 as goliathon. Yeah, the mighty peking man is an obvious ripoff of king kong 1933 and mighty joe young 1949, one that lacks even the most basic shred of likeability of those two films. A giant ape called mighty peking man has emerged following an earthquake in the. May 31, 2015 the mighty peking man was made with a budget of around 6 million hkd. He finds the monster and discovers its been raising a scantilyclad woman, samantha, since she survived a plane crash years before that killed her parents. The mighty ape film is an obvious ripoff of the 1976 american king kong film which. There is an earthquake near the beginning of mighty peking man, but unlike the earthquake in the fondly remembered inframan, it does not. Despite ticking all the boxes of potential scum greatness seal of approval from tarantino, rare shaw brothers creatureexploitation feature. First up is the mighty peking man the mighty peking man is one of the worst movies ever madethus making it one of the best movies ever made. Everybody who loves awful movies, must go see the mighty peking man when it screens in glorious 16mm april 5th. While the bigbudget paramount remake decided to go. In numerous ways, mighty peking man is a movie that defies critique. Its simply an earthquake scene, just as later, there is a quicksand scene, a scene where a python fights a tiger, etc.
The monkey suit looks about as good as costumes donned in a toho godzilla release. Available on dvd as part of quentin tarantinos rolling thunder pictures triple feature, and also on bluray from japan warning, no english subtitles available with the japanese release, i finally got round to catching the mighty peking man. Goliathon 1977 opens w the utter destruction of a toy village by an earthquake. The effects are crappy, the script is worse, and the plot holes are big enough for a giant ape to walk through. There is an earthquake near the beginning of mighty peking man, but unlike the earthquake in the fondly remembered inframan, it does not unleash the slinkynecked robots and hairy mutant footstools controlled by princess dragon mom. Oct 01, 2014 king kong comes to hong kong in the mighty peking man, a uniquely shaw brothers spin on the ageless theme of beauty and the beast. This isnt the type of film you take seriously at all. After reintroducing the world to italian horror schlockster lucio fulci via the beyond, rolling thunder followed with the newtovideo mighty peking man, a 1977 film from hong kongs shaw brothers. This time the focus is on the classic, film the mighty peking man.
With evelyne kraft, danny lee, feng ku, wei tu lin. Feb 04, 20 shaw brothers the mighty peking man 1977 act 07 orangutan king save the beauty duration. The mighty peking man is a 1977 film produced in hong kong by shaw brothers studio to capitalize on the craze surrounding the 1976 remake of king kong. A powerful earthquake awakens a giant, apelike creature who descends from the mountains into the treacherous jungles of. A team, led by johnnie fang danny lee is assembled to find the towering apemonster. An expedition is started by a greedy, cigar chewing promoter norman chu who employs a down and out explorer, johnnie fang future hong kong action star danny. The mighty peking man was made with a budget of around 6 million hkd. The action, locations set in india, and interracial romance made variety reach this verdict. Mighty peking man is an overthetop retelling of the great ape story in classic hong kong action style. Sam arrives to beg for mighty peking mans release, but lu tien carries her away, and to the list of virtues contained in this one evil capitalist we can also add venality, as lu tien attempts to rape samantha unfortunately for him, in sight of mighty peking man. In that film agar promised lovers jeff bridges and jessica lange that kong will be captured alive if they help calm him down, only to send in helicopter gunships to kill kong once theyve done so. While i can clearly remember going to the theater with my dad to see the king kong remake in 1976 the film this movie is so obviously trying to copy i have no memory whatsoever of the mighty peking mans american release a few years later march of 1980, even under the title goliathon. Wringing every last drop of pathos out of his tragic death scene he lifts his battered, tearsoaked rubber head off the ground, glass eyes staring up into the night sky, reaches out, as if for some far off salvation.
Celestial pictures shaw brothers universe 8,126 views 1. The mighty peking man suit is of poor quality its mouth gapes wide open, allowing us to see the suit actors mouth in a few shots. One man s journey down the mighty mississippi full colection. Shaw brothers the mighty peking man 1977 act 07 orangutan king save the beauty duration. Mighty peking man, made in 1977, is being rereleased by quentin tarantinos rolling thunder pictures, and we can only imagine young qt behind the counter of that legendary video store of his youth, watching this on the. The mighty peking man 1977 jabootus bad movie dimension. This campy hong kong version of king kong played at the 1999 sundance film festival in the midnight madness sections, as well as the toronto film festival. Shortly after that, there was the campy piece of crud, queen kong, and then tonights offering from hong kong, the mighty peking man. A really, and i mean really, obvious ripoff of king kong, only better. Point break 1991 streaming ita film streaming gratis italiano. The giant proceeds to go berserk, rip apart his cage, and chase lu tien and sam.
Youre meant to sit back and relax, switch your brain off or leav it at the door and. Directed by meng hua ho and written by kuang ni, this film is the shaw. Peking man homo erectus pekinensis, formerly known by the junior synonym sinanthropus pekinensis is a group of fossil specimens of homo erectus, dated from roughly 750,000 years ago, discovered in 192937 during excavations at zhoukoudian chou koutien near beijing at the time spelled peking, china. Mighty peking man was another attempt to replicate the success of king kong, a movie often copied and never surpassed. The peking man changes size a bit, depending on the sets. A very young danny lee yep, the same guy from the killer ventures into the jungle to track down a big ass ape. The mighty peking man is definately a cool addition to that genre of film.
King kong goes hong kong as a giant himalayan beast tries to save a sexy russia tarzanette from a sleazy showbiz promoter. The model work is good, on par with tohos godzilla movies, and there are some clever ideas and bits of good dialog. The mighty peking man 1977 the movie database tmdb. They travel to india to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. Wringing every last drop of pathos out of his tragic death scene he lifts his battered, tearsoaked rubber head off the ground, glass eyes staring up into the night sky, reaches out, as if for some far off salvation, then finally collapses back to the ground dead. This greatly displeases mighty peking man, not to mention samantha this is the second time the nipple adhesive fails. Evelyne kraft,danny lee,feng ku,wei tu lin,norman chu,hangsheng wu,yao hsiao,ping chen audio language.
The mighty peking man is a 1977 monster film produced by shaw brothers studio to capitalize on the craze surrounding the 1976 remake of king kong. It disturbs a giant ape, for example, which lumbers down from its mountain home and heads for the jungles of india. The film was originally released in the united states with the english dub in 1980 as goliathon. Smith really dopey giant ape movie from hong kong complete with cheesy special effects, snakebattling jaguars, buxom jungle girls, deadly quicksand, and screaming townspeople fleeing from destruction. In the farflung modern days of 1977, an evil entrepreneur and an astonishingly naive hunter named johnny fang played by the killers danny lee contract to capture the 100foot ape and bring it back to. A giant ape called mighty peking man has emerged following an earthquake in the himalayas, and has. Mighty peking man 1977 in case you didnt know it, an earthquake back in the sixties unearthed a giant frozen simian in the himalayas.
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