The Killer (1972 film)

The Killer is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Chor Yuen.[2]

The Killer
Directed byChor Yuen
Produced byRun Run Shaw[1]
Starring
Music byZhou Fuliang
CinematographyWu Zhuohua[1]
Edited byJiang Xinglong[1]
Production
company
Shaw Brothers[2]
Release date
  • 1 August 1972 (1972-08-01) (Hong Kong)
CountryHong Kong[2]

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


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