LHMC: ‘The Brave Archer’ lobby cards

Lobby card art for Shaw Brothers’ wuxia classic THE BRAVE ARCHER comes to the Linn Haynes Memorial Collection. Featured are 11 original lobby cards once used to promote the 1977 film in Hong Kong cinemas. THE BRAVE ARCHER was the first entry in director Chang Cheh’s four-part film adaptation of Louis Cha’s novel “The Legend of the Condor Heroes.” The film starred Alexander Fu Sheng, actress Tien Niu, prolific character actor Ku Feng, and future international action director and Venoms Mob alum Philip Kwok. THE BRAVE ARCHER has been re-mastered by Celestial Pictures and is now available on DVD in the U.S. courtesy of Media Blasters.

About the Collection
The Linn Haynes Memorial Collection is a compilation of rare Asian film memorabilia from the golden age of kung fu cinema (1970-1985) presented as tribute to the late kung fu movie scholar Linn Haynes. Contained herein is a growing repository of long out-of-print Hong Kong film magazines in their entirety, featuring images and articles (occasionally bilingual) about the actors, filmmakers and their films from this bygone era. As bonus, LHMC will periodically include rare lobby card art from a variety of classic kung fu movies.

About Linn Haynes (1974-2008)
Bobby Linn Haynes passed away on February 28th, 2008 at the age of 33. He was a well-respected kung fu film scholar and consultant, as well as Kung Fu Cinema’s Community Relations Manager. He was well known within the kung fu fandom community as a knowledgeable expert on classic kung fu movies. He was a freelance writer, a consultant to various DVD distributors, a DVD commentator, and an avid collector of comics, videos and books. This collection of rare movie memorabilia is provided to the public as a tribute to Linn’s great contribution to the kung fu movie fan community all around the world.

A Special Message from Monica Haynes
Unfortunately, memorial means someone has died and even more unfortunately, this means Linn Haynes has died. I knew Linn for a little over 10 years. I watched his interest in kung fu movies go global. When he first ventured into the cyber world with it, he used my email to connect with people to trade and I am still getting information about Zatoichi!

Linn’s love of these cult flicks was not a one-dimensional endeavor for him. No, he had a true respect and honor for the Asian people and their culture. Linn spent hours researching Asian history, folklore, customs, and the development of the kung fu film genre. Not only could he tell you the thousands of films put out by the Shaw Brothers (or any other company), he could also tell you why they put out those particular story lines in that year, why they chose the actors and choreographers, the previous and subsequent films of those actors, choreographers and directors, the many titles of the films and if they were letterboxed, subtitled or dubbed, and what films one should watch next. Linn was a wealth of knowledge and his lifelong friends always thought that instead of sleeping he just hooked into the mother satellite and downloaded information.

This collection is just the beginning of tangible evidence that Linn’s knowledge and passion for Asian films, particularly kung fu, has made a difference for this genre. I hope that this collection will spark more interest, more discussions, and more mainstream promotion of what I call “my husband’s mistress.” Here’s to the success of the Linn Haynes Memorial Collection and thank you to all who made this possible.

With love,
Monica Haynes

Credits
This feature collection is provided courtesy of Dr. Carolyn Halladay and Terrence Brady, who together have contributed complete, high-resolution scans of various “Southern Screen” and “Cinemart” issues. The collection is also provided courtesy of Brian Dyer, who contributed lobby card art.