Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Charles Bail

Writers:

Max Julien (characters)
William Tennant (writer)

Release Date:

11 July 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Action

Tagline:

6' 2" of dynamite caught in the web of international intrigue!

Plot:

When fellow operatives (and childhood friends) Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson disappear during an undercover mission in Hong Kong...

Plot Keywords:

Hong Kong | Casino | Undercover | Drugs | Lesbian

Cast

Tamara Dobson	...	Cleopatra Jones
Stella Stevens	...	Bianca Javin / Dragon Lady
Ni Tien	...	Mi Ling Fong (as Tanny)
Norman Fell	...	Stanley Nagel
Albert Popwell	...	Matthew Johnson
Caro Kenyatta	...	Melvin Johnson
Shen Chan	...	Soo Da Chen
Christopher Hunt	...	Méndez
Chen Chi Lin	...	Madalena
Locke Hua Liu	...	Tony
Eddy Donno	...	Morgan
Bobby Canavarro	...	Lin Ma Chen
Mui Kwok Sing	...	Benno
John Cheung	...	David (as John Cheng)
Tony Lee	...	Lao Di

Also Known As:

Cleopatra Jones Meets the Dragon Lady (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Nu jin gang dou kuang long nu (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)

Runtime:

Australia:96 min | UK:96 min | USA:94 min

Country:

Hong Kong | USA

Language:

English | Mandarin

Color:

Color | Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Netherlands:12 | UK:AA (original rating) | Australia:M | Finland:(Banned) (1975) | Spain:18 | Sweden:(Banned) (1975) | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Norway:(Banned) (1975-2003) (cinema release)

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Harbor Productions

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During the car chase between the Mercedes and the four-door Ford Falcon, the stunt double for Tanny (driving the Mercedes) is clearly a man.

Quotes:

Cleopatra Jones: Don't raise your motor, baby! It's not leaving the garage.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Velvet Smooth (1976)

Soundtrack:

Playing with Fire

Chop-sockey B-movie is fun for awhile but overstays its welcome...

Follow-up to 1973's far better "Cleopatra Jones" has statuesque black actress Tamara Dobson returning to her signature role as chic, super-tough narcotics agent, here busting a heroin ring in Hong Kong. Cross-pollination of blaxploitation action-flick and kung-fu B-movie is fun at the outset but eventually flags. The shoot-out finale is right off the assembly-line, and Dobson herself seems less energetic than before (she's still sexy, and she puts a unique spin on her comically-stilted dialogue, but these surroundings may have been too much of one thing for her--she's jaded). Stella Stevens plays the villainess this time; she's good, but can't match Shelley Winters in the predecessor. ** from ****