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Crippled Avengers

Original title: Can que
  • 19781978
  • RR
  • 1h 44m
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7.3/10
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Crippled Avengers (1978)
Three men, crippled by an evil warlord, become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his idiot pupil.
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Three men, crippled by an evil warlord, become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his idiot pupil.Three men, crippled by an evil warlord, become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his idiot pupil.Three men, crippled by an evil warlord, become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his idiot pupil.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
2.6K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
38,162
5,706
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    • Director
      • Cheh Chang
    • Writers
      • Cheh Chang
      • Kuang Ni
    • Stars
      • Kuan Tai Chen
      • Feng Lu
      • Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok
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    • Director
      • Cheh Chang
    • Writers
      • Cheh Chang
      • Kuang Ni
    • Stars
      • Kuan Tai Chen
      • Feng Lu
      • Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok
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    • 32User reviews
    • 40Critic reviews

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    Kuan Tai Chen
    Kuan Tai Chen
    • Black Tiger Dao Tian-Du
    Feng Lu
    Feng Lu
    • Tao Sheng
    Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok
    Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok
    • Chen Shun
    • (as Kuo Chui)
    Meng Lo
    Meng Lo
    • Wei Da-ti
    Chien Sun
    Chien Sun
    • Hu Ah-kuei
    Sheng Chiang
    Sheng Chiang
    • Wang Yi
    Lung-Wei Wang
    Lung-Wei Wang
    • Lin Yung
    Chen-Tu Tan
    Chen-Tu Tan
    • Master Law Bo
    Tai-Ping Yu
    • (Guest star)
    Miao Ching
    Miao Ching
    • Li Jing-ying
    Helen Poon
    Helen Poon
    • Du's wife
    • (as Ping-Chang Pan)
    Dick Wei
    Dick Wei
    • Tien Nan Tiger #1 of the Southern Sky
    • (as Lung Tu)
    Hsi Chang
    Hsi Chang
    Shih-Ou Chang
    Shih-Ou Chang
    Chih-Lu Chen
    Hung Chen
    Kin Ping Chow
    Kin Ping Chow
    • Du's thug
    • (as Chien-Ping Chou)
    Ming Fung
    Ming Fung
    • Townsfolk
    • Director
      • Cheh Chang
    • Writers
      • Cheh Chang
      • Kuang Ni
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    • Trivia
      The film was spoofed in Futurama: The Series Has Landed (1999), which an arcade game called "Mortal Kooperation" is seen and the arcade game mocks this film.
    • Alternate versions
      German version was cut by ca. 16 minutes to secure a "Not under 18" rating.
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    10/10
    Five Deadly Venoms are the 5 actors
    Just to clear something up, since a lot of people are complaining that it's not a sequel to five deadly venoms... Actually after the movie Five Deadly Venoms, that group of actors became known as "The Five Deadly Venoms" just like "The Rat Pack". So the title "Return of the Five Deadly Venoms" refers to a return of those 5 actors, not the 5 characters from the first film.

    I saw this film when it was titled "Mortal Combat" which was actually quite a few years before the famous arcade game Mortal Kombat.

    I hate to admit it... but I really do enjoy the dubbed versions. I know they add quite a bit of "cheese" to the movie, just like how ridiculous Godzilla is in English. And normally I would hate that.. but I guess since I grew up with the cheese, I enjoy it.

    Either way this is a great film, I finally got ahold of the newly remastered version "Crippled Avengers" and it's worth getting. Much better than my "Return" DVD.

    I rated it 10 out of 10 because it was the one movie from way back that stood out in my mind. I'm so happy i finally found it! still it's at least 8 without the happy memories.
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    • Release date
      • November 1981 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Hong Kong
    • Language
      • Mandarin
    • Also known as
      • Mortal Combat
    • Filming locations
      • Hong Kong, China
    • Production company
      • Shaw Brothers
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 44 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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