La selvaggia mano di Bruce Lee

Released in Hong Kong 5/17/1974 as WILD WHIRLWIND, this is a really mediocre detective-story. The main set is a luxury mansion with a swimming pool and almost nothing else. Taiwan-based star Meng Fei did better movies than this. The camerawork is terrible, as well as the Kung-Fu fights. The movie was made in 1974 but was released in Italy 1980 as LA SELVAGGIA MANO DI BRUCE LEE (transl. The wild hand of Bruce Lee) in order to make some money... but the italian edition called Bruce Lee the tycoon who dies in the first minutes, not the main hero!!! Co-directed by Dan Ochoa and Yang Shih Ching (the latter was production manager in the masterpiece DRAGON INN, 1967, directed by the Maestro King Hu, but all in all he didn't learn anything from working with a such big filmmaker).

It starts with a day in the life of rich folks including mansions in the hills, swimming pools, dune buggies and personal aircraft. The small plane explodes and one rich guy is dead.

The only copy I could find of this movie was the Italian dubbed version. I am done looking. This movie minimally qualifies as a martial arts movie because there are a few fights in it. The fights are simple brawls with fists. The action doesn't even start until after about thirty minutes.

I don't speak Italian. This movie was heavy on the dialog and I could not follow the story. There didn't seem to be much to follow anyway. Usually I don't even review a movie under such circumstances. Nevertheless, it was obvious there was really nothing to watch here and I have no intention of watching it again.