The fake Bruce Lee movie so shameless, it invented its own genre of shamelessness.
This retrospective featurette includes words from filmmaker Jim Markovic, producer Terry Levene, screenwriter Ron Harvey, director Matthew Mallinson, and actors Ron Van Clief and Fred Williamson. Topics include the sordid history of Aquarius Releasing and their other Bruce Lee knock-offs, assembling the film from lukewarm leftovers, shooting new scenes, filming at Madison Square Garden, the "guest stars", script re-writes, Adolph Caesar, creating a fake news station, and more. (Blu-ray.com)
Direction
Griffith crafts affectionate chaos from exploitation's most shameless con.
Production
Madison Square Garden footage and fake news stations — budget ingenuity at its finest.
Director
Daniel Griffith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brucesploitation spawned over 100 fake Bruce Lee films between 1973-1985, creating an entire shadow filmography from recycled outtakes and lookalikes.
Aquarius Releasing's Terry Levene later became a respected film preservationist — the same man who once sold 'Bruce Lee's final unfinished film' that Lee never touched.
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