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Written by James M. Tate / 3/29/2026 / No comments / adventure , ahna capri , bolo yeung , bruce lee , jim kelly , john saxon , karate , robert clouse , seventies , spy

BRUCE LEE IN 'ENTER THE DRAGON' WITH JOHN SAXON & JIM KELLY

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPaI469nA88IHOfjCYerBlmsZGJXOZu_PMSyKoBSEsXn2qfqlgon6jaSnWtTSj0ZAdVp3sikNmXAL5VBG_R9MveVWqYEj4Jh7gaunyCHAzMZ7Qf0Jvk4uhje71kqEfgyqPKulpQCmsoOd-3eGEhTDTRTxEXul1-nohTotDRJsh61qvK2mzuT2f26tJPZ4d/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-30%20at%2011.45.20%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPaI469nA88IHOfjCYerBlmsZGJXOZu_PMSyKoBSEsXn2qfqlgon6jaSnWtTSj0ZAdVp3sikNmXAL5VBG_R9MveVWqYEj4Jh7gaunyCHAzMZ7Qf0Jvk4uhje71kqEfgyqPKulpQCmsoOd-3eGEhTDTRTxEXul1-nohTotDRJsh61qvK2mzuT2f26tJPZ4d/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-30%20at%2011.45.20%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bruce Lee in ENTER THE DRAGON Year: 1973 Rates: *****</td></tr></tbody></table>By the time Bruce Lee, starring in his first and last American produced motion picture, squares off against island-ruling heavy Han in ENTER THE DRAGON, one important thing is crystal clear... Nobody, from henchmen <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/11/tconnection.html">Bolo Young</a> to Robert Wall, or co-stars John Saxon or <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/jim%20kelly">Jim Kelly</a>, could have taken him on and so, liken to a James Bond franchise villain, the seedy-smiling, slave-owning, harem-surrounded Kien Shih has a glove with knife-fingers to give him that needed/necessary edge...

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BRUCE LEE IN 'ENTER THE DRAGON' WITH JOHN SAXON & JIM KELLY

Bruce Lee in ENTER THE DRAGON Year: 1973 Rates: ***** By the time Bruce Lee, starring in his first and last American produced motion picture...

BURT REYNOLDS WITH AHNA CAPRI & NORMAL FELL ON 'DAN AUGUST'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmO5erNdc2sQSnKdhIiM09fMAE4xP6gvrizoUuvItMKvgikMkhLvGcbx1JoS-nLA1khyACFR1zJeoJrVDpB0pd-loRdoMDfdm0W4rnzdouOtjefE6B_Oymb6yIt3Q_pUijeBYbIPWByTWpjh96Dw0JwlK4DiMFQXR6QpbxiQG-H6gY5jPEd6t4COfEgOW9/s1208/z.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmO5erNdc2sQSnKdhIiM09fMAE4xP6gvrizoUuvItMKvgikMkhLvGcbx1JoS-nLA1khyACFR1zJeoJrVDpB0pd-loRdoMDfdm0W4rnzdouOtjefE6B_Oymb6yIt3Q_pUijeBYbIPWByTWpjh96Dw0JwlK4DiMFQXR6QpbxiQG-H6gY5jPEd6t4COfEgOW9/s16000/z.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burt Reynolds on DAN AUGUST Prognosis: Homicide Year: 1971 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>One of the better episodes of the Burt Reynolds detective series DAN AUGUST has a flowing handing-off plot, beginning with a bum who finds a free bottle of whiskey, is poisoned and dies, which leads Burt's titular character and partner Norman Fell into seeking three beautiful blondes connected to an unpopular surgeon played by Fritz Weaver...The most important in ENTER THE DRAGON dragonlady Ahna Capri, who might have the doctor's baby... and Ena Hartman, girlfriend of a lower surgeon who, along with hook-handed Ken Scott, has it in for the womanizing doc...

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BURT REYNOLDS WITH AHNA CAPRI & NORMAL FELL ON 'DAN AUGUST'

Burt Reynolds on DAN AUGUST Prognosis: Homicide Year: 1971 Rating: **** One of the better episodes of the Burt Reynolds detective series DAN...

ROD TAYLOR LITERALLY VS WILLIAM SMITH IN 'DARKER THAN AMBER'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEmGoMbxTG-unBMqSdpfO5miEVz6yc6_EJKd9NWBNf67uPxm8ZixX1EzcZUjRWQbrfO20cg0kmSab5DVU479Eb8UAgWqPT4s6sm255hh6FnhyU2yIas73cnOK90wGlBux4qAt8M9WxznR/s778/Screen+Shot+2021-06-14+at+10.53.03+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="778" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEmGoMbxTG-unBMqSdpfO5miEVz6yc6_EJKd9NWBNf67uPxm8ZixX1EzcZUjRWQbrfO20cg0kmSab5DVU479Eb8UAgWqPT4s6sm255hh6FnhyU2yIas73cnOK90wGlBux4qAt8M9WxznR/w400-h369/Screen+Shot+2021-06-14+at+10.53.03+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Book Cover Darker than Amber Year: 1970 Rates: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>"And speaking of that... What about that?" is some of the clunky dialogue in Robert Clouse's cinematic venture for pulp author John D. McDonald's beach bum/salvage seller Travis McGee, here played by an aged-to-granite Rod Taylor, more befitting a suit during the cruise ship second half than bulky shirtless on his own boat... a balmy Florida Keys Neo Noir during an intriguing set-up when Taylor's McGee rescues a beautiful blonde dumped off a bridge with weighted ankles... The kind of colorfully psychedelic counter-culture clashing an otherwise gray-toned detective-style thriller, and especially vivid is the young girl, all open-minded and groovy in Suzy Kendall, who, pretty enough to fall for quickly, there's not enough romantic chemistry to merit McGee such severe depression after her death... Quickly followed by a contrived resurrection as Kendall plays a different girl, used to trick muscular bleach-blond psycho <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/06/falcon-eddie.html">William Smith</a>: And what DARKER THAN AMBER is known for is the climactic fight between Taylor and Smith that wound up real, captured by director Clouse that landed him Bruce Lee's ENTER THE DRAGON: Which also featured blonde bombshell Ahna Capri who, like Smith and beautiful black actress Janet MacLachlan as well as pinch thug Robert Phillips, isn't given enough screen time in a deliberate b-movie that's more a scattered collection of scenes.

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ROD TAYLOR LITERALLY VS WILLIAM SMITH IN 'DARKER THAN AMBER'

Book Cover Darker than Amber Year: 1970 Rates: *** "And speaking of that... What about that?" is some of the clunky dialogue in Ro...

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