The Mighty Peking Man

Xing xing wang

Hong Kong

1978

87 Min

Color

2.35:1

Mandarin

Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
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PROD Runme Shaw, Vee King Shaw

CAST Evelyne Kraft, Danny Lee, Ku Feng, Wei Tu Lin, Norman Chu, Hang-Sheng Wu, Theodore Thomas, Steve Nicholson, Yao Hsiao, Chen Ping, Corey Yuen

SOUND Ping Kuang Hsu, Yi-chi Li, Wei Mao, Wang Yung Hua

Synopsis

Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster and discovers it’s been raising a scantily-clad woman, Samantha, since she survived a plane crash years before that killed her parents. –IMDb

Director

Ho Meng Hua

Ho Meng Hua, also He Meng Hua and Hoh Mung Wa (Chinese: 何夢華) (1 January 1923 – 19 May 2009) was a Chinese film director from Shanghai, working in the Cinema of Hong Kong and the Cinema of Taiwan. After joining the famous Shaw Brothers studio in 1955, he eventually became one the studios’ most prolific directors, directing about fifty films between then and 1980. —Wikipedia

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wolfmansRazor

1Jun12

The Shaw Bros.' attempt to get a piece of that mid-70s Kong action. Always ridiculous, but never less than entertaining. Evelyne Kraft gets bitten by a snake on her upper thigh, so Johnny sucks it out. Then there's a cheesecake montage of Kraft romping around with a live cheetah on her shoulders. It's that kind of movie, my friends.

Hunter Duesing

23Jun11

A must-see cheeseball buffet of unintentional comedy from the Shaw Bros., a flick that ranks up there with the insanity that is SUPER INFRAMAN.

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Christopher Smith

23Jun11

Really dopey giant ape movie from Hong Kong complete with cheesy special effects, snake-battling jaguars, buxom jungle girls, deadly quicksand, and screaming townspeople fleeing from destruction. It's all just as ridiculous as it sounds, though not quite as entertaining. Marginal fun for B-movie fans, but far from the best.