Deadly Duo

Blu-Ray: 5/5 - Blu-ray comes with some elegant trails crap with Ti Lung and David Chiang and other crap. Picture quality and transfer are wonderful and the audio is happy. Yay.Movie: 3.5/5 - The reason why I liked this movie is because of the bridge scene. In one instance, this guy would attempt to cross the bridge because he is confident in his Light Skills but alas he fails and plunges to his doom. Then the next guy would say some $@!+ like "my Light Skills aren't as good as his but I know I can make it." Failure! I don't recall how many times these idiots tried it (i think it was either 3 or 4) but it was so damn funny, I $#!+ blood. One of them was fat, too, and he was confident he was going to cross but he fell as well. It's like watching the Roadrunner cartoons. But anyways, this is a Kung Fu movie about some morons trying to save some Sung Dynasty prince from some evil guys. The story is coherent but flat and uninspiring and the Kung Fu action was fun. Recommended to Kung Fu lovers at best.

A "quickie", by Shaw standards (just over eighty minutes of running time), this Ti Lung/David Chiang venture doen't overstay its welcome, and anybody wanting to test the waters of Shaw Brothers' movies on DVD should try this as a starting point.This is just one of many Chang Cheh films featuring the two leads in a team-up; they are NOT "teamed up", of course (Ti is in the movie more than David), but who cares, really? I love being a literallist, but I digress.... It's another fine Tokyo Shock presentation with good audio, video, and extras, though the profiles on Ti and David are already available on the reissue of "The Water Margin". Is David Chiang worthy of the role "Little Bat"? Watch and see, and to all nay-sayers of Chiang out there: lighten up!(P.S.--Look for this release to come out on Blu-Ray in May, and it already looks GREAT on DVD!)

Here are the correct product details for Deadly Duo aka The Blade of Fury (1971).Video: Deadly Duo is presented in 2:35 anamorphic widescreen and the excellent remaster job from Celestial looks great.Audio: English 5.1, English mono, and Mandarin mono. All three audio options are clean and clear sounding.Subtitles: There are English subtitles that are actual subtitles and not just dub subs (subtitles for the english dubbing track) that I've seen on many other kung fu dvds.Extras:* A featurette about David Chiang* A featurette about Ti Lung* Two trailers for Deadly Duo* A stills gallery* Trailers of other Tokyo Shock dvdsIf you enjoy old school Shaw Brothers, you can't go wrong with this purchase.

David Chiang movies my favorite. I love all his movies. Like Bruce Lee.s I really love deadly.due it was excellent. Thanks, very, very much. Yours sincerely.Theophile warrior horse 🐴 jsnice

the late chang cheh is a master genius...the creative prowess is dynamic and epic, with a blood thirsty hardcore butt-kickin' gore fest for true martial arts movie fanatics!!!

Visually this is crisp and clean in copy. The movie is good, but can have it's "No way they are going to attempt that again when they already know it won't work" moment. But it is still a good movie and a good addition to any David Chiang collection.

AWESOME MOVIE

A pretty good movie but at times your scratching your head and even laughing especially when some of the people trying to rescue the Prince and on the bridge you will see why I said laughing it had good fighting scenes and also has BOLO YEUNG in it so to me any movie with BOLO is a good movie and trivia he took the name BOLO YEUNG after Enter The Dragon his real name was Yang Sze a true Legend of the MARTIAL ARTS movies definitely worth the money and would watch again even with the bridge part

another good movie

During the Sung Dynasty in Northern China a prince is taken prisoner in order to prevent a southern uprising.The prince is being held at a mountain hideaway and the only access is across a decaying bridge that's almost impossible to cross.That's the basic premise,but what really elevates this film is the extraordinary action that's shot on a truly grand scale.The two leads (David Chiang & Ti Lung) are great as are the whole cast,look out for an early role for the beast of the east Bolo Yeung as the River Dragon.There are some awsome weapons on display and the epic battles are filmed with scores of extras.This is another early Chang Cheh classic,one not to be missed.Thanks for reading and I hope that you enjoy the film.

Some prince is kidnapped and held by some dastardly and corrupt officials. They keep the prince hostage in a fort on top of a mountain, until a group of rebels led by some bloke with a massive battle axe comes to his rescue.The baddies wont give up easily though and have their own plans of protecting their prize abductee, on one side they have an army of sword fodder, some expert killers (Fire Man, Water Dragon, Mole Man, Tree Man, and errr... Mr Cymbals!) who can channel their kung fu skills through the five elements of fire, water, earth, wood and gold; and on the other side a rather rickety bridge over a deep ravine, that no one in their right mind will try to cross.So the baddies taunt the heroes shouting things like 'So what if you've got a big chopper, at least we've got wood!' and so forth, in an attempt to lure the small band of rebel heroes out in the open or over the bridge and to their doom.. However the heroes have other ideas and enlist the help of a light footed fellow who may just be the answer to all their problems and able to get them over the bridge safely...Decent medieval war epic by Chang Cheh, which features all his usual motifs of brothers standing up against insurmountable odds to vanquish a cruel and corrupt official. Tons of dying fly moments ensue as the heroes lay waste to literally tens and tens of extras, until it's their turn to get the chop, whilst wanton colourful gouts of blood splats the screen!Once again the heroes in this Shaw production are Ti Lung and David Chiang. Lung the one having to wield the great axe (not the most refined of weapons but effective!), while Chiang plays some jumping dude who helps out, with a sort of weird Chinese weapon which is a cross between a hand held harpoon and a Japanese kusarigama...I suppose the question is, is it as good as The Heroic Ones, The New One-Armed Swordsman or Blood Brothers. Which are also blood soaked Chinese war epics, made by the same cast and crew between 1970-73?Well, in my opinion yes and no.The New One-Armed Swordsman is the best (which I really like, and was one of the films which got me hooked on this stuff in the first place, 30+ years ago!). Followed by Deadly Duo and Blood Brothers that are on about an equal par, with The Heroic Ones only a little way behind.A decent unrelated series of films featuring lots of medieval heroic bloodshed.Recommended, if like me, you like this sort of thing.The Tokyo Shock dvd is a good widescreen print, which you can watch either subbed or dubbed.Mostly the extras consist of a few trailers but there are a couple of interviews on there too. One concentrating on Chiang, the other Ti Lung, which are quite cool.4.25/5 (which is maybe a bit of a mean score)