The Mighty Peking Man
“Action... Excitement... Spectacle beyond your wildest dreams!”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 64, rated by 1 admin.
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Explorers find a giant ape and a jungle woman, then make the predictably disastrous decision to bring the attraction back to civilisation. The melodrama is extravagant, the miniatures proudly vulnerable, and the spectacle has the enthusiasm of a whole studio trying to out-Kong Kong.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 7/10
- Plot
- 9/10
- Effects
- 3/10
- Dialogue
- 6/10
- Rewatchability
- 7/10
“The expedition has made several catastrophic casting decisions for its city show.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 64
Synopsis and movie facts
Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster and discovers it's been raising a scantily-clad woman, Samantha, since she survived a plane crash years before that killed her parents. In the idyllic jungle, Johnny and Samantha fall in love. Then Johnny asks her to convince "Utam" to go to Hong Kong. Lu Tien, an unscrupulous promoter, takes over: Utam is in chains for freak show exhibitions. When Lu Tien assaults Samantha, Utam's protective instincts take over: havoc in Hong Kong.
- Released
- 1977
- Directed by
- Ho Meng-Hua
- Running time
- 90 min
- Original title
- 猩猩王
Starring
- Evelyne Kraft as Ah Wei
- Danny Lee Sau-yin as Johnny Chen Zheng Feng
- Ku Feng as Lu Tien
- Lam Wai-Tiu as Chen Shi Yu
- Norman Tsui Siu-keung as Dr. Ah Long
- Ng Hong-Sang as Dr. Ah Pi
- Ted Thomas as Commissioner
- Steve Nicholson as Commissioner's Aide
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