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The Big Boss (Chinese: 唐山大兄; originally titled as Fists of Fury in the United States) is a 1971 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Lo Wei (who also wrote the film) and Wu Chi-hsiang. Bruce Lee stars in his first major film in a lead role, and his first Hong Kong film since 1960 .
The Big Boss Part II (1976) Bruce Lee and I (1976) The Last Fist of Fury (1977) Bruce and Shaolin Kung Fu (1977) Bruce and the Shaolin Bronzemen (1977) Bruce Lee's Ways of Kung Fu (1977) Return of Bruce (1977) The Dragon Lives Again (1977) Bruce Lee the Invincible (1977) Bruce Lee, We Miss You (1977) Fist of Fury II (1977) Bruce Li in New ...
That title was a means of tapping the popularity of another film, The French Connection (starring Gene Hackman), released in the U.S. in 1971. [3] That title was intended to be used for the U.S. release of another Bruce Lee film, The Big Boss, which also involved drug smuggling.
When he returned to Hong Kong, Lee starred in three films that shot him to stardom all over Asia, The Big Boss (1971), Fist of Fury (1972) and Way of the Dragon (1972). After the kung fu film Five Fingers of Death (1972), starring Indonesian -born actor Lo Lieh , topped the North American box office in 1973, this paved the way for Lee's The Big ...
Highest-grossing films of 1971 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Billy Jack: Warner Bros. $98,000,000 2 Fiddler on the Roof: United Artists: $78,722,370 3 Diamonds Are Forever: United Artists $43,800,000 4 The French Connection: 20th Century Fox: $41,158,757 5 Summer of '42: Warner Bros. $32,063,634 6 Dirty Harry: Warner Bros. $28,153,434 ...
A 1993 survey of historians, political scientists and urban experts conducted by Melvin G. Holli of the University of Illinois at Chicago saw Daley ranked as the fifth best American big-city mayor to serve between the years 1820 and 1993. [43] The survey also saw Daley ranked the best big-city mayor to serve in office post-1960. [44]
Jimmy Hoffa, the legendary American union organiser, disappeared from a parking lot outside of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Detroit, 48 years ago on Saturday 30 July 1975 ...
In 1970, Liu joined the Hong Kong film production company Golden Harvest.He made his movie debut in a villainous role in the 1971 film The Big Boss opposite Bruce Lee, whom he was reunited with by sheer coincidence having both been cast in the same movie despite having not seen each other since Lee's departure for the States in 1959. [3]