The Fighting Fool

The Fighting Fool

92 mins | Action | Jan. 1, 1979

It's Meng Yuan-wen (star of The Master Strikes) versus Kuan Feng in this wild and wacky wushu saga of a priceless pole with a spectacular secret. A master martial artist's silly disciple struggles to save it from an evil white slaver, the slaver's duplicitous wife, and even his own bone-headed, but greedy, companion. Hsu Hsia choreographs the abundant action, as he had for both Five Superfighters and Drunken Master. The result is both sublime (for its kung-fu) and engagingly ridiculous.

The Fighting Fool

92 mins | Action | Jan. 1, 1979

The Fighting Fool
It's Meng Yuan-wen (star of The Master Strikes) versus Kuan Feng in this wild and wacky wushu saga of a priceless pole with a spectacular secret. A master martial artist's silly disciple struggles to save it from an evil white slaver, the slaver's duplicitous wife, and even his own bone-headed, but greedy, companion. Hsu Hsia choreographs the abundant action, as he had for both Five Superfighters and Drunken Master. The result is both sublime (for its kung-fu) and engagingly ridiculous.
Producers Shaw Brothers
Original title 奪棍
Directors Patrick Yuen Ho-Chuen
Writers Wong Jing

Cast

Meng Yuen-Man

as Meng

Kwan Fung

as Crouching Eagle

Wong Chun

as Zhu Tou Bing

Wang Sha

as Master Wei

Helen Poon Bing-Seung

as Crouching Eagle's wife

Chiang Cheng

as Meng's Uncle

Ng Hong-Sang

as Eagle Mansion man

Jamie Luk Kim-Ming

as Indian

Paul Wong Kwan

as Master Wei's assassin friend

Wan Seung-Lam

as Friend of assassin

Fung Hap-So

as Man after bounty / Eagle Mansion man

Lam Fai-Wong

as Blind man

Wong Wing

as Old Eagle