The Killer (1972 film)

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The Killer
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Chor Yuen
Screenplay by Kuo Chia
Produced by Run Run Shaw [1]
Starring
CinematographyWu Zhuohua [1]
Edited byJiang Xinglong [1]
Music byZhou Fuliang
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date
  • 1 August 1972 (1972-08-01)(Hong Kong)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryHong Kong [2]
LanguageMandarin

The Killer (released in the United States as Sacred Knives of Vengeance) is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Chor Yuen. [2]

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Release

The film was released in Hong Kong on August 1, 1972. [1]

Reception

From contemporary reviews, Tom Milne of the Monthly Film Bulletin reviewed a dubbed version of the film. [2] Milne found the film to be a "rather tired offering from the Hong Kong conveyor-belt", while noting the film begins well enough with the hero "arriving in town to confound one and all with his dazzling display of town-taming karate chops and kangaroo hops. It also end swell with the las-minute intervention of a genuine Japanese samurai, heralded by a mysterious sound in an apparently empty house as something falls, and one by one the panels of a screen topple over to reveal him in full regalia, ready to challenge the heroes to the only fight in the film staged with any style or imagination." [2] Milne concluded that the film "gets bogged down in endless, drearily identical fights and a plot which labours through its triangular complex of love and friendship." [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Hong Kong Film Archive [Search for "大殺手"]". Hong Kong Film Archive . Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Milne, Tom (September 1973). "Killer, The". Monthly Film Bulletin . Vol. 40, no. 476. British Film Institute. pp. 192–193.