Movie Ad of the Week: THE SABERTOOTH DRAGON VS. THE FIERY TIGER (1978)

Here's a U.S. release ad for JIANG NAN BA DA XIA/THE GREATEST PLOT (1977), a kung fu flick with gory highlights provided by lethal booby traps and flying guillotines, plus one memorable sequence in which a major character commits suicide by plucking out his own eyes and ripping out his own throat! The battered English-dubbed print we watched, taken from the Alpha Blue Archives VHS tape, runs about 89 minutes and looks like horses dragged it to hell and back. The onscreen title is THE SABER TOOTH DRAGON VS. THE FIERY TIGER.

"'Grand Old Lady' Turns to Kung Fu for Survival"

View-Master: KUNG FU

The popular TV series Kung Fu ran on ABC for three seasons (October 14, 1972 – April 16, 1975) and turned its laconic leading man, the late David Carradine, into something of a counterculture hero and a cult figure for the rest of his career. Carradine, who passed away last week at the age of 72, later reprised his Kwai Chang Caine character in a couple of TV movies in the 1980s and a successful syndicated spin-off series in the '90s (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues). The episode depicted in this View-Master packet is "The Brujo," first aired on October 25th, 1973. We can't post any of the 3-D pictures, but below is the booklet that was issued with the pack.