The Magnificent Trio (1966)

Bemerkungen:

* Kein Abspann. "The End - Another Shaw Production"-Einblendung bei 108:12 Min.

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                        THE
         MAGNIFICENT
    CHANG CHEH
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THE MAGNIFICENT TRIO & MAGNIFICENT WANDERERS
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EUREKA!
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Zwei Filme von Regisseur Chang Cheh auf einer Blu-ray in einem Amaray Keep Case.
Sleeve mit Wendecover: Ein Artwork für "The Magnificent Trio" und ein Artwork für "Magnificent Wanderers".

Limited Edition inklusive:

• O-Card-Slipcase
• 20-seitiges Booklet, geklammert, in Farbe. Inhalt:
  
  • Poster "The Magnificent Trio" (Seite 2)
  • The Magnificent Trio - Cast & Crew (Seite 3)
  • Poster "Magnificent Wanderers" (Seite 4)
  • Magnificent Wanderers - Cast & Crew (Seite 5)
  • A Magnificent Duo - Notes on Wuxia, Kung Fu and Chang Cheh by James Oliver (Seite 6 - 15)
  • Doppelseitiges Szenenbild (Seite 16 - 17)
  • Viewing Notes / Special Note (Seite 18)
  • Release Credits (Seite 19)

Art.-Nr.: EKA 70567

Direkter Menüeinsprung ohne vorherige Einspieler.

Das Menü ist weder musikalisch untermalt noch animiert.

Menüpunkte:

• The Magnificent Trio
  
  • Play with Original Mandarin Audio
  • Play with Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng & Michael Worth
• The Magnificent Wanderers
  
  • Play with Original Mandarin Audio
  • Play with English Dubbed Audio
  • Play with Audio Commentary by Mike Leeder & Arne Venema

• Chang Cheh Style by Gary Bettinson

Vor Filmstart erscheint ein 8-sekündiger Einspieler mit "Eureka!"-Logo. Nach Filmende erscheinen Rechtehinweise (0:05 Min. + 0:10 Min.).

Der Film ist in 11 Kapitel unterteilt (Kein Kapitelmenü).

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Herstellerangaben von der Eureka-Homepage:

One of the Shaw Brothers Studio’s most prolific directors, Chang Cheh – or the “Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema” – is the filmmaker behind Five Deadly Venoms, Chinatown Kid and Boxer Rebellion. Collected here are two films by this maestro of martial arts cinema that showcase his considerable talents at both ends of his career: The Magnificent Trio, produced when wuxia films ruled the Hong Kong box office in the mid-1960s, and Magnificent Wanderers, made at the height of the kung fu craze at the end of the 1970s.

In an early role that pre-dates his star-making turn in Chang’s The One-Armed Swordsman, Jimmy Wang Yu stars in The Magnificent Trio as swordsman Lu Fang, who – along with fellow warriors Yen Tzu-ching (Lo Lieh) and Huang Liang (Cheng Lui) – lends his martial arts prowess to a group of oppressed farmers when they kidnap the daughter of their local magistrate. Then, in the kung fu comedy Magnificent Wanderers, the three nomads Lin Shao You (Fu Sheng), Shi Da Yong (Chi Kuan-chun), and Guan Fei (Li Yi-min) attempt to join Chinese patriots in their struggle against invading Mongol armies with the help of the wealthy Chu Tie Xia (David Chiang).

From straight-faced wuxia pian to farcical kung fu comedy, The Magnificent Trio and Magnificent Wanderers display the full range of Chang Cheh, a filmmaker who sat in the director’s chair for over three decades. Eureka Classics is proud to present both films on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

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Zum Fassungseintrag des anderen enthaltenen Films:

• Magnificent Wanderers