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‘The Knight of Knights’ entertains with its potpourri of loosely connected episodes

The Knight of Knights Written by Chang Cheh Directed by Sit Kwan Hong Kong. 1966   Among the many amusing commonalities between Shaw Brothers studio films are kinetic nature of the scripts which so often have their characters venture from place to place in a series of episodic adventures whose connective tissue is, all too …

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Shaw Brothers Saturdays: ‘The Sword and the Lute’ ends its trilogy, but is also one chapter too many

The Sword and the Lute Directed by Hsu Tseng-Hung Written by San Kong Hong Kong, 1967 After Temple of the Red Lotus and The Twin Swords both emerged onto the Hong Kong cinema scene in 1965, showcasing several brand new, soon to be insanely popular actors moulded by Shaw Brothers studios, among them Lo Lieh, …

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