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Released five years after Bruce Lee’s death, this eccentrically entertaining kung-fu curio combines footage from an unfinished project directed by and starring Lee with original material shot by Enter the Dragon director Robert Clouse to create an entirely new work that testifies to the actor’s enduring place in the pop-culture imagination. Using stand-ins, doubles, and archival footage to compensate for Lee’s absence, Game of Death follows a martial-arts movie star who, when he is threatened by a cutthroat crime syndicate intent on controlling his career, must take his skills from the soundstage to the streets. It all builds to an exhilarating climax that is pure Lee: a tour de force of martial-arts mastery in which the legend himself, clad in an iconic yellow jumpsuit, fights his way up a multilevel pagoda, with the towering Kareem Abdul-Jabbar among his formidable opponents.
Original Release
03/23/1978
US Release
06/08/1979
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Gig Young | Jim Marshall |
Dean Jagger | Dr. Land |
Hugh O'Brian | Steiner |
Colleen Camp | Ann Morris |
Robert Wall | Carl Miller |
Mel Novak | Stick |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Hakim / Mantis (original 1972 footage) |
Chuck Norris | Fighter / Colt |
Dan Inosanto | Pasqual / Third Floor Guardian (original 1972 footage) |
Billy McGill | John |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gig Young | Jim Marshall |
Dean Jagger | Dr. Land |
Hugh O'Brian | Steiner |
Colleen Camp | Ann Morris |
Robert Wall | Carl Miller |
Mel Novak | Stick |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Hakim / Mantis (original 1972 footage) |
Chuck Norris | Fighter / Colt |
Dan Inosanto | Pasqual / Third Floor Guardian (original 1972 footage) |
Billy McGill | John |
Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Lo Chen |
Roy Chiao | Henry Lo |
Tony Leung Chiu-wai | David |
Jim James | Surgeon |
Russell Cawthorne | Doctor |
David Hu | Businessman 1 |
Peter Gee | Businessman 2 |
Don Barry | Boat Captain / Hakim (double) |
Jess Hardie | Record Producer |
Eddie Lye | Director |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Bruce Lee | Producer |
Raymond Chow | Producer |
Andre Morgan | Producer |