Jim Kelly
출생 : 1946-05-05, Paris, Kentucky, USA
사망 : 2013-06-29
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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)
Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.
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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
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For a contemporary perspective, the excitable Quentin Tarantino offers his spirited commentary and author/critic bell hooks provides some scholarly social analysis.
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
Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee exposes the truth behind Lee's death and the cover-up that ensued.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee.
Chuck
A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.
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 has a plan to eradicate some people with a freeze bomb that instantly freezes people to death. It is up to Detective Ash to stop him and protect the woman with the secret to the ice bomb embedded in a microdot under the skin of her forehead.
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
When the daughter of the royal family is held hostage, an agent for "D.R.A.G.O.N." will stop at nothing to destroy the evil organisation which abducted her.
Jones
Martial-arts expert tries to rescue an ambassador's daughter who was kidnapped in Thailand.
Kashtok
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Senora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
Jeff
젊음을 되찾기를 원하는 미국의 암흑계 대부 윈터스(Winters: 버제스 메레디스 분)는 이 물건을 손에 넣기 위해 조직원 펠리시티(Felicity: 엘리자베스 애쉬 분)를 홍콩에 파견하지만 펠리시티는 물건을 빼돌려 돈을 챙긴 다음 조직에서 은퇴할 결심을 한다. 펠리시티의 부탁을 받은 골동품상 콴(Kwan: 토니 리 분)은 절친한 친구인 해결사 댄(Dan: 죠 돈 베이커 분)에게 린 토우(Lin Toa: 로이 치아오 분)가 갖고 있는 황금인물상을 훔쳐내 달라고 부탁하는데 이로 인해 콴은 토우의 부하들에게 죽음을 당한다.
Mister Keyes
한 백인우월주의자가 엄청난 음모를 준비한다. 그는 백인들에게는 해가 없지만 흑인들에게는 치명적인 독극물을 상수도에 풀어 미국 전역을 오염시킬 계획을 진행시킨다. 그 비열한 계획을 가로막는 유일한 장애물은 저격수 지미, 육탄전에 강한 재거와 가라데 사범 미스터 키이스 뿐이다. 세 사람은 힘을 합쳐 말도 안되는 살인극을 저지하기 위해 고전한다.
Black Belt Jones
Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school is run by a kindly old coot named Pops ,played by Scatman Crothers. His gambling debts, however, bring the local thug, Pinky, down on him. To make matters worse, Pinky is then hired by some white thugs who want to get a hold of the property Pops' school occupies so they can build a shopping mall. When things get heavy, Black Belt Jones leaps into action. Only he's not alone. Pops' daughter, Sidney, shows up to lend a hand, proving herself every bit as agile and powerful a martial artist as Jones.
Williams
미국 정보부에서는 헤로인을 밀조하고 인신매매까지 벌이는 한을 체포하기 위해, 소림사 출신의 무술인 리에게 도움을 청한다. 쿵푸학교로 위장된 한의 요새화된 섬에서 3년마다 열리는 무술대회에 출전하게 하는데, 누이동생의 죽음이 한과 관련이 있는 것을 알고 그들을 응징하기로 마음 먹는다. 섬에 도착한 무술인들 중에는 암흑조직에 쫒기는 로퍼와 가라데 선수로 경찰에 쫒기는 흑인 윌리암즈가 있었다. 리는 정보부에서 미리 침투시킨 메이 링과의 접선에 성공하고, 그녀로부터 섬의 여자들이 계속 실종되고 있다는 말을 듣고 야밤에 몰래 정탐을 하기로 계획하는데...
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.