The Deadly Duo

1971 [CHINESE]

Action / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 59%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 640 640

martial arts

Plot summary

The plot involves patriots during the Sung Dynasty and their attempts to rescue a kidnapped prince from Ching troops who have invaded the north of China. The patriots are led by Ti Lung who recruits a mysterious but seemingly superhuman fighter played by David Chiang to find a way to cross a perilous bridge to enter an impregnable fortress to locate and rescue the imprisoned prince.

Director

Cheh Chang Photo
Cheh Chang

Top cast

Bolo Yeung Photo
Bolo Yeung as The river dragon of jin
Cheung-Yan Yuen Photo
Cheung-Yan Yuen as (as Hsiang-Jen Yuan)
Angela Mao Photo
Angela Mao as Elite fighters / love interest mao ying
Phillip Ko Photo
Phillip Ko
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
750.12 MB
1280*544
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
Seeds 1
1.36 GB
1920*816
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
23.976 fps
1 hr 21 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ronnievanrijswijk 7 / 10

What's with the PG13 rating???

I'm a bit in the middle at the moment watching this classic Shaw Brothers movie, it starts with a very bloody series of executions. A few men get stabbed to their deaths with spears, later on they get saved. Like in any other kung fu movie this goes together with a big fight, the movie is quite enjoyable like any other of the most movies from Shaw Brothers. I don't remember watching any bad ones, anyway i was a bit bothered when i read that Deadly Duo received a PG13 rating in the US. I'm watching the dutch subtitled vhs and it's really bloody, so the only thing i could think of is that you guys got a heavily cut version. Come on there's spraying blood, someone gets axed in the neck. Bloody stabbings, an R rating would have been more suitable for this movie. Don't expect a gorefest, but it's just all very bloody. Just the way i like my action movies.
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 6 / 10

Deadly Duo

Deadly Duo has Ti Lung and David Chiang as Bao Ting Tien and Little Bat and they must fight the Five Elements Great Fighters, who are River Dragon (Bolo Yeung), Golden Demon, Fire Demon Lui (Yeung Chak-lam), Leopard (Wong Pau-gei) and Mole (Lau Kar-wing) to rescue Sung Prince Kang.Directed by Chang Cheh - with Godfrey Ho as the first assistant director (!) and Lau Kar-leung (!) directing the action scenes - this is a movie based as much around the heroics of its leads as it is a series of astounding weapons, including the typical swords and spears, as well as cymbals and a weapon that literally spits fire.Chang Cheh made six movies in 1971 (King Eagle, The New One-Armed Swordsman, Duel of the Iron Fist, The Anonymous Heroes, Duel of Fists and this movie) and man, how did he do it? He's throwing in underwater action here too! I mean, it's not like he slowed down in 1972, a year in which he made eight movies, including The Boxer from Shantung.These Shaw Brothers epics just keep me alive. I may not always be able to follow every beat of the story but they're just so relentlessly entertaining that I can't stop watching.
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