LMD: When we met last week, I asked you what your favourite martial arts films were and
you mentioned Police Story and Drunken Master 2 — I missed the 3rd title.
Not exact matches
When State
Police Superintendent Harry Corbitt wrote a letter to the Post editors denying these
stories, Daily News Albany chronicler Elizabeth Benjamin saw fit to
mention the exposé rumors publicly for the first time.
The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's
Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to
mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.
We also have work from Burl Barer, and Bradley Nickell, not to
mention Michael W. Streed, who tells the
story of a
police sketch artist.
We already
mentioned the «brand
police» above, but this
story deserved its own call - out.