Three and a half years ago we put up a Mystery Movie post about THE SWORD AND THE CLAW, the main feature on a martial arts triple bill from William Mishkin Motion Pictures that opened on August 26, 1983 at the Rialto I on 42nd Street. What we thought was a kung fu movie actually turned out to be the wacky Turkish action-adventure flick KILIÇ ASLAN (1975), better known as LION MAN, which was a Movie Ad of the Week just a month or two back. Big thanks to Sebastian del Castillo of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) for helping us with this one.
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Friday, February 17, 2017
Mystery Movie solved! THE SWORD AND THE CLAW (1983)
Three and a half years ago we put up a Mystery Movie post about THE SWORD AND THE CLAW, the main feature on a martial arts triple bill from William Mishkin Motion Pictures that opened on August 26, 1983 at the Rialto I on 42nd Street. What we thought was a kung fu movie actually turned out to be the wacky Turkish action-adventure flick KILIÇ ASLAN (1975), better known as LION MAN, which was a Movie Ad of the Week just a month or two back. Big thanks to Sebastian del Castillo of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) for helping us with this one.
Sunday, January 01, 2017
Movie Ad of the Week: LION MAN VS. THE BARBARIANS w/ KUNG FU MANIAC (1982)
The howlingly funny Turkish action-adventure flick KILIÇ ASLAN (1975), better known as LION MAN and starring Cüneyt Arkin ("Steve Arkin"), went directly to the kung fu track here in the U.S. courtesy of William Mishkin Motion Pictures. Riding the coattails of CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Chicago sub-distributor Don Buhrmester pushed the film as LION MAN VS. THE BARBARIANS for its one-theater Loop debut with the previous year's KUNG FU MANIAC on August 14, 1982.
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