Jim Kelly
Nacimiento : 1946-05-05, Paris, Kentucky, USA
Muerte : 2013-06-29
Historia
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James M. "Jim" "the Dragon" Kelly (1946-2013) was an American athlete, actor, and martial artist who came to prominence in the early 1970s. He is best known from his performance as Williams in the 1973 Bruce Lee film Enter the Dragon.
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Self (archive footage)
Profundizando en un siglo de películas de género que las utilizaron, caricaturizaron, explotaron, marginaron y finalmente adoptaron, esta es la historia no contada de los estadounidenses negros en Hollywood a través de su conexión con el género de terror.
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Feature Length sit down with Charles Band and Roger Corman.
This homage to martial arts legend Jim Kelly is based on a hugely successful YouTube video. Reggie's got a dead end job, a cruel boss, and no real prospects. Until he uncovers a pair of magic nun-chucks that gives him karate superpowers and set Reggie up for a battle with the evil Kung Fu Master.
Self
Written, directed, and produced by David Walker, MACKED, HAMMERED, SLAUGHTERED, & SHAFTED is an insightful examination of the blaxploitation film movement of the 1970s. Featuring interviews with key actors and filmmakers, the documentary explores the origins of blaxploitation, and the controversial history of Hollywood's most misunderstood genre.
Self
Entrevistas e imágenes de archivo que ilustran y comentan la historia del género "blaxploitation".
Self (archive footage)
A collection of old interviews with Bruce Lee show us his beliefs, thoughts on fighting and what martial arts means to him.
Himself
Welcome to the world of the martial arts. A voyage for the times of the martial arts cinema, from the beginning in China in the 6th Century A.C. by a Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma, until the actual time and the influence in the world, with interviews to actors and historians, and a review to the most important movies of all times and to the most famous action movies actors. A magnificent jewel of this genre what nobody wouldn't lose.
A compilation of some of the best Black Action films of the 70s! Hosted by Mr. Dolemite himself... RUDY RAY MOORE!
Executive
Dina Bonnevie played a Filipina working with a US-based chemical company which sent a team to the Philippines to check a branch here. Eddie Garcia played the Chief of Police assigned to protect the chemical company's visiting group which fell victim to a terrorist gang headed by Vernon Wells. Eddie was only too obsessed to save the chemical company group because Dina happened to be his girlfriend, who, against Eddie's wishes, had gone to the U.S.A. for greener pastures.
Executive #4
Deep inside the nation's top chemical weapons facility, a brilliant terrorist takes a Congresswoman hostage. The Navy can't stop him. The Air Force can't reach him. The Coast Guard can't kill him. Only one man can do the job: special agent Ryan Cooper. He's in a race against time to save the world, facing his greatest challenge yet!
Himself
El primer y único documental que revela la verdad acerca de las extrañas circunstancias que rodearon la inexplicable muerte de Lee a sus 32 años, tan sólo semanas antes de ser catapultado al estrellato..
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Golden Harvest Productions, la productora de la serie de impactantes films de artes marciales de Bruce Lee, presenta un amplio documental para conmemorar la carrera y la labor del más grande héroe de kung-fu que jamás se haya conocido. En "La Leyenda de Bruce Lee" se hace un recorrido por la vida y la carrera del "Pequeño Dragón", desde sus días como estrella infantil en films cantoneses, pasando por su incursión en Estados Unidos en las series de televisión "The Green Hornet" y "Longstreet", hasta que se convirtió en una de las mayores estrellas de todo el mundo, logrando cambiar la opinión y renovando el estilo de los films de artes marciales. En el documental se incluyen fragmentos de todos los films de Bruce Lee, incluidos "Furia Oriental" y "Operación Dragón" así como anécdotas de rodaje de su obra maestra inacabada "Juego con la Muerte". También se incluyen una serie de entrevistas inéditas con aquellos que lo conocieron íntimamente e imágenes de su emotivo funeral.
Chuck
Un par de policías duros persiguen a los mafiosos que arreglaron una competencia de artes marciales y lesionaron a un amigo.
Lucas
When a diamond is stolen in Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to have a change of heart because his girlfriend wants him to leave his criminal organization.
Lt. Detective J. Ash
The Pig tiene un plan para erradicar a algunas personas con una bomba congeladora que funciona instantáneamente, congelando a las personas hasta la muerte. Incumbe al Detective Ash detenerlo y proteger a la mujer con el secreto de la bomba de hielo incrustada en una microdot debajo de la piel de su frente.
A double amputee known as Mr. No Legs oversees a drug syndicate while cavorting around in his double shotgun-equipped wheelchair. When one of the syndicate's drug dealers accidentally kills his own girlfriend—whose brother is a cop—after she announces plans to leave him, the game is on to bury the evidence, protect the syndicate and evade the long arm of the law.
Robert Sand
Un joven negro experto en artes marciales se infiltra en la isla secreta donde una poderosa organización criminal tiene secuestrada a su novia.
Jones
Martial-arts expert tries to rescue an ambassador's daughter who was kidnapped in Thailand.
Kashtok
A Pike, la mano derecha del poderoso ganadero Bob Morgan, se le ha confiado la misión de pasar 86.000 dólares a través de la frontera para llevarlos al Morgan Ranch de Sonora, México. Tras la muerte de su jefe, Pike se une al jugador deshonesto Tyree para cumplir el encargo y entregar el dinero a la viuda del antiguo empleador de Pike. Durante el viaje, se ven obligados a confiar el uno en el otro, mientras son perseguidos por forajidos y pistoleros que intentarán arrebatarles el dinero. Entre ellos, el despiadado cazarrecompensas Kiefer y el corrupto shérif Kane.
Jeff
An ancient Asian statue with the power to grant health and long life via secret acupuncture points is being pursued by a wealthy criminal, but his plans are put in peril when a slovenly detective is tasked with protecting the relic.
Mister Keyes
La película narra la historia de un complot contra los negros. Tres altos cargos crean un plan: introducir un veneno en el agua, inofensivo para los blancos, pero letal para los negros. De este modo pretenden eliminar a todos los afroamericanos.
Black Belt Jones
Un maestro de kárate debe proteger su escuela de los ataques de la mafia del distrito de Watts en Los Ángeles, lo que brindará la oportunidad a sus alumnos de poner en práctica las habilidades que han aprendido.
Williams
Un joven, experto en artes marciales, es reclutado por el servicio de inteligencia inglés. Su misión es viajar a Hong Kong y desenmascarar las fraudulentas actividades de un hombre de negocios.
Self
Promotional film on the making of 'Enter the Dragon.'
Charles Atkins
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
