Game of Death

19781978
RR
1h 40min

Bruce Lee in Game of Death (1978)

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A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

Directors
- Robert Clouse
- Bruce Lee(uncredited)
Writers
- Robert Clouse
- Bruce Lee(uncredited)
Stars
- Bruce Lee(archive footage)
- Gig Young
- Dean Jagger

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Billy Loas Billy Lo
(archive footage)
…

Jim Marshallas Jim Marshall

Dr. Landas Dr. Land

Steineras Steiner

Ann Morrisas Ann Morris

Carl Milleras Carl Miller

Stickas Stick

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Hakimas Hakim
(archive footage)
…

Fighteras Fighter
(archive footage)

Pasqualas Pasqual
(as Danny Inosanto)
…

Johnas John

Sammo Kam-Bo Hung

Lo Chenas Lo Chen
(as Hung Kim Po)

Henry Loas Henry Lo

Tony Chiu-Wai Leung

Davidas David
(as Tony Leung)

Surgeonas Surgeon

Russell Cawthorne

Doctoras Doctor

Businessman 1as Businessman 1

Businessman 2as Businessman 2

Directors
- Robert Clouse
- Bruce Lee(uncredited)
Writers
- Robert Clouse
- Bruce Lee(uncredited)
All cast & crew
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In this movie, Bruce Lee is a very famous martial-arts master who stars in many films. After an unsuccessful murder attempt against him, everyone thinks his is dead, but he's just hiding, preparing his revenge... —Chris Makrozahopoulos <makzax@hotmail.com>

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Taglines
- Bruce Lee challenges the underworld to a Game of Death.
Genres
Certificate
- R
Parents guide

Trivia
In this movie, Bruce Lee's character is shot with a prop gun by stick (Mel Novak) that was secretly made to fire a real bullet and kill him. Lee's son, Brandon Lee, was killed on the set of The Crow (1994), when a prop pistol accidentally shot him in the abdomen.

Goofs
In the beginning of the movie, a scene where you can see Lee's face in the mirror of his trailer. It's obviously a cardboard cutout, as the neck below it moves freely about unconnected to the head.

Quotes
Dr Land: So much for the weather report. I'm not the only one who just arrived. How about your trip to Berlin Stick?
Stick: It went pretty much as you figured. Now that he's the big star, I couldn't reason with him. He said he was pulling out and he threatened me.
Dr Land: Oh my my my my. The rest of it was in the papers. That's when he committed suicide huh? Haha!
Stick: He just got up and jumped out of the window...

Alternate versions
New Zealand theatrical and videotape versions were originally cut to remove the entire nunchaku battle between Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto, although the censors later allowed this sequence to appear intact in the documentaries The Curse of the Dragon (1993) and Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000). In 2005 the cut was also waived for the Region 4 DVD release of "Game of Death".

Connections
Edited from The Big Boss (1971)

Soundtracks
Game of Death
(Hong Kong version only)
Music by Joseph Koo
Lyrics by James Wong
Sung By Roman Tam

Top review

funny, sad, and enjoyable

The sad:

Bruce's premature death, the disposal of the original script, the inclusion of the current one, the cop-out ending, "Bruce's" punking out...

The Funny:

The double used through mist if the film meant to be passed off as Bruce Lee, the blatant use of stock footage from other Bruce films, the acting...

The enjoyable:

The score is very underrated, one of John Barry's finest (I have the soundtrack to this movie, along with another Barry film, Night Games.) Some real good martial arts sequences make the wait for the real Bruce footage towards the end, especially the locker room fight between "Bruce" and Bob Wall (choreaographed by Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, who reportedly portrayed Bruce in that scene.) Sammo himself appears as a fighter in the film. I give this movie a modest recommendation.

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Budget
- $850,000 (estimated)

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Runtime
- 1h 40min
Sound mix
- Mono
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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