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The Fighting Fool

The Fighting Fool

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1979

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Action

User Score

62%

Original Title

奪棍

Production Companies

Shaw Brothers

Director

Patrick Yuen Ho-Chuen

Description

It's Meng Yuan-wen (star of The Master Strikes) versus Kuan Feng in this wild and wacky wushu saga of a priceless pole with a spectacular secret. A master martial artist's silly disciple struggles to save it from an evil white slaver, the slaver's duplicitous wife, and even his own bone-headed, but greedy, companion. Hsu Hsia choreographs the abundant action, as he had for both Five Superfighters and Drunken Master. The result is both sublime (for its kung-fu) and engagingly ridiculous.