World Video VHS of Bruce's Finger (Cantonese language)

[W Hong]

Spoilers

I remember renting the World Video VHS tape of "Bruce's Finger", which starred Bruce Le, Nora Miao, Lo Lieh. I don't think that it was dubbed in English, so it was probably in Cantonese language. So I guess that was one way to watch a Bruce Lee imitator movie in the HK version. Do you hope that "BF" will be released onto DVD in the original Cantonese language and Eng. subt.? I can't remember if "BF" was good or not, but I remember the fight scenes near the end being good. One of those fights has Bruce Le taking out a nunchaku stick from inside one of his boots or whatever. I hardly ever saw somebody in a kung fu movie who carried it around that way for some reason. So for you Bruce imitator fans, I thought I'd let you know about that video.

[killer meteor]

Bruce's Deadly Fingers got a widescreen release from VCI but the ending was cut

[Squid Lips]

Hey KM, the end is cut? Which part? I have this DVD (a great 2.35 print) but am curious as to what was cut? I saw this in the theaters years ago twice and don't recall anything missing.

But this is one of my favorite Le films (for the camp value). Has some interesting Lee-connections with the actors (nora, old man from Enter The Dragon) and locations (Wong's studio).

[killer meteor]

SPOILER

On the DVD, Le pokes out Lo Lieh's eye and then lunges toward him (and the camera). THE END. Apparently the UK VHS shows a bit more afterwards - what exactly I'm not sure

[the dirty tiger]

I have the uk vhs AND THE us vhs BUT THEY ARE IN eNGLAND AND i AM NOT, SORRY :\

[kungfusamurai]

Passion Productions has put out a series of Bruce Le DVDs under the title 'Kung Fu Theatre'. They put out Bruce's Deadly Finger (that's what they called it) as 2.35:1. They probably used the same source tape that VCI used. They put out a whole series of DVDs with Bruce Le, many from Best Film VHS sources.

KFS

[killer meteor]

Did Passion release any more in 2.35:1?

[kungfusamurai]

I've bought a bunch of the Kung Fu Theatre DVDs (I passed on a number of them because I already have them, like Ghost of The Ninja AKA Killer In White - but I might end up buying them later anyway) and all of them are full screen and I'd say of those full screens, 90% have pixelation during the fight scenes (if you're familiar with their Saturn DVD releases from years ago, the ones that used to go for $1 each on Ebay, it's the same problem).

Unless they put out reissues of the first two Street Fighter Sonny Chiba flicks, I think that the Finger movie is the only one that is widescreen, and that was because they had a previous VHS release to work from that was widescreen (and english dubbed).

KFS