Korean actor and Hapkido expert Hwang In-shik, who fought Lee in Way of the Dragon , was expected to appear in Game of Death as a guardian of one of the five floors, but this fight was never filmed.
He has a degree in journalism from the University of Montevallo, and is the author of the psychological thriller and time travel novel, "A Man Against the World.
His favorite actors are Tyrone Power and Eleanor Parker. He can be reached by email at cnrmail bellsouth. By Nicholas Raymond Published Nov 21, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Action Crime Drama. Directors Robert Clouse Bruce Lee uncredited. Robert Clouse Bruce Lee uncredited. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Clip Game of Death. Photos Top cast Edit. Dean Jagger Dr. Land as Dr. Hugh O'Brian Steiner as Steiner. Mel Novak Stick as Stick. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Hakim as Hakim archive footage ….
Chuck Norris Fighter as Fighter archive footage. Billy McGill John as John. Jim James Surgeon as Surgeon. Russell Cawthorne Doctor as Doctor. David Hu Businessman 1 as Businessman 1. Peter Gee Businessman 2 as Businessman 2. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In this movie, Bruce Lee is a very famous martial-arts master who stars in many films.
After an unsuccessful murder attempt against him, everyone thinks his is dead, but he's just hiding, preparing his revenge Bruce Lee challenges the underworld to a Game of Death. Action Crime Drama Thriller. Disguised as a stuntman, Land's assassin Stick Mel Novak sneaks onto the set of Billy's new film, and shoots Billy during filming.
A fragment of the bullet passes through Billy's face, leaving him alive but in need of plastic surgery which alters his facial features. Billy takes the opportunity to fake his death and disguise himself, exacting revenge against those who wronged him one at a time.
In the revised film, Bruce Lee's fight scenes inside the pagoda are assumed to take place in the upper floors of the Red Pepper restaurant, where Dr. Land and his thugs have laid an ambush.
In the end Billy survives the ambush, rescues Ann, and destroys each of the main mobsters one-by-one. The revised version of the film uses only 11 minutes and 7 seconds of the footage from the original The Game of Death , and for the vast majority of the film, the role of Billy Lo was shared by Yuen Biao and taekwondo master Tai Chung Kim and was voiced by Chris Kent.
The plot of the film allowed Kim and Biao to spend much of the film in disguises, usually involving false beards and large, dark sunglasses that obscured the fact that they bore little resemblance to Lee.
Many scenes, including fight scenes, also included brief close-up bits of stock footage of the real Bruce Lee from his pre- Enter the Dragon films, often only lasting a second or two. These clips are easily recognizable due to the difference in film quality between the old and new footage. At one point in the movie, real footage of Bruce Lee's corpse in his open-topped casket is used to show the character Billy Lo faking his death.
Several actors associated with previous Lee movies were included in the re-shoot for the final film. Sammo Hung , who appeared in Enter the Dragon , served as the fight coordinator for the re-shoot of Game of Death , and also appears in the scene as a ring opponent for Miller.
In order to maintain continuity with the fight footage taken from the original film, Dan Inosanto renamed Pasqual and Ji Han Jae whose character was unnamed and was not shown until near the end of the film were given small parts as additional enforcers for the syndicate. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar refused to participate in the re-shoot, with another tall African-American stand-in renamed Hakim included instead.
Although Chuck Norris is credited as starring in the movie, his role is limited to clips from Way of the Dragon inserted into the film. The film quality of the Clouse-directed footage was noticeably higher than that of Lee's earlier Hong Kong films, and John Barry provided an original soundtrack. For Chinese-speaking audiences, the film was dubbed into Cantonese and Mandarin, and had significant changes, such as the inclusion of a fight in a green house with Casanova Wong and a different opening and closing credits sequence, featuring a new theme song, plus a couple of minor scenes.
Unlike the English version, they use Lee's actual battle sounds. Several scenes were removed, also, including the fight in the opera house dressing room. In the original Hong Kong version, the fight with Ji Han Jae is included during the middle of the film though , whilst the ending did not show Billy Lo being arrested - instead, both he and Ann share their good-byes to Jim as they appear to depart Hong Kong on a boat.
The Singaporean version ended with Billy Lo's arrest, and it did not feature the Ji Han Jae fight - this is the version commonly found in Chinese. The American score was composed by John Barry. Criticism of the revised version included the inclusion of scenes that could be considered in bad taste, such as the incorporation of footage of Lee's actual funeral. Another scene, often pointed out by critics of the film, involved a shot of Kim looking at himself in the mirror, with an obvious cardboard cut-out of Lee's face pasted onto the mirror's surface.
The action directed by Sammo Hung for the scenes with the Bruce Lee lookalikes and the footage that Bruce Lee shot for the original footage with the final three fights helped to alleviate the movie's problems. Apart from the cheesy techniques used to disguise the fact that Bruce Lee was being played by stand-ins, the movie enjoyed respectable production values.
Bey Logan points out a few logic issues with the movie. In order for the henchmen to remain low key, they should be wearing more casual clothes instead of the multicolored tracksuits seen at various parts of the film. But as a rationale, this explains why Bruce Lee wears the yellow tracksuit. Also in the fight between Bruce Lee and Kareem Abdul, the scene near the vase in Logan's opinion appears to look choppy along with the short fight with Hugh O' Brian.
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