Mr. Hercules Against Karate

Mr. Hercules Against Karate

Directed by	Antonio Margheriti
Produced by	Carlo Ponti
Screenplay by	Gianni Simonelli Antonio Margheriti^[1]
Story by	Luciano Vinenzoni Sergio Donati^[1]
Starring	Roberto Terracina Fernando Arrien Jolina Mitchell George Wang Chai Lee Sue Chang
Music by	Carlo Savina
Cinematography	Luciano Trasatti^[1]
Edited by	Mario Morra^[1]
Production companies	Laser Film^[1]
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	1973 (1973)
Running time	104 minutes^[1]
Country	Italy^[1]

Mr. Hercules Against Karate/Ming, ragazzi! is a 1973 Italian comedy Kung fu film directed by Antonio Margheriti that was filmed in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Bangkok.^[2] Produced by Carlo Ponti, the film features Bud Spencer and Terence Hill impersonators Roberto Terracina and Fernando Arrien in a satire of the Kung-fu craze.^[3]

Plot

The film is about Danny (Roberto Terracina) and Percy (Fernando Arrien) who are fired from an oil rig in Australia when Percy accidentally destroys it. They retreat to a Chinese restaurant where they meet the owner Wang who offers them $100,000 if they return his son Henshu who has been taken by Henshu's stepmother and her boyfriend, a kung fu master. The two agree and fly to Hong Kong.

Reception

Tom Milne (Monthly Film Bulletin) gave the film a negative review, lamenting that one or two shots such as the carnival dragon in a dark alley "remind one that Margheriti has had his moments in the past as a minor-league Bava".^[1] Milne concluded that the film was "a dim carbon copy, studded with travelogue views and making heavy weather of its aimless roughhouse fights."^[1]

Cast

Alberto Terracina ... Danny / Dino (billed as Tom Scott)
Fernando Bilbao ... Percy / Parsifal (billed as Fred Harris)
Jolina Collins ... Ai-Lan (billed as Jolina Mitchell)
Chai Lee ... Lee-Ping
George Wang ... Ming
Sue Chang ... Sue
Luciano Pigozzi ... Chief of Police (billed as Alan Collins)

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Milne, Tom (1974). "Schiaffoni e Karate (Mr. Hercules against Karate)". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 41 no. 480 (London: British Film Institute). p. 81.
↑ Palmer, Palmer & Meyers 1995, p. 152.
↑ http://www.antoniomargheriti.com/English_Version/all_his_films/Comedy/Ming%20ragazzi.htm

References

Palmer, Bill; Palmer, Karen; Meyers, Ric (1995). The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Movies. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 1461672759.

External links

Mr. Hercules Against Karate at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Antonio Margheriti

1960s	Space Men (1960) Battle of the Worlds (1961) The Golden Arrow (1962) The Fall of Rome (1963) The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963) Castle of Blood (1964) Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules (1964) Hercules, Prisoner of Evil (1964) Giants of Rome (1964) The Long Hair of Death (1964) Wild, Wild Planet (1965) War of the Planets (1966) War Between the Planets (1966) Snow Devils (1965) Lightning Bolt (1966) Bob Fleming... Mission Casablanca (1966) Dynamite Joe (1967) The Young, the Evil and the Savage (1968) Io ti amo (1968) Vengeance (1968) The Unnaturals (1969)

1970s	Mr. Superinvisible (1970) And God Said to Cain (1970) Web of the Spider (1971) House of 1,000 Pleasures (1972) Treasure Island (1972) Novelle galeotte d'amore (1972) Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye (1973) Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973) The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974) Take a Hard Ride (1975) The Rip-Off (1975) Death Rage (1976) Killer Fish (1978) Fantasma en el Oeste (1978)

1980s - 1990s	Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) The Last Hunter (1980) Car Crash (1981) Hunters of the Golden Cobra (1982) Tiger Joe (1982) The Ark of the Sun God (1983) Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983) Last Blood (1983) Code Name: Wild Geese (1984) Jungle Raiders (1985) Commando Leopard (1985) Treasure Island in Outer Space (1987) The Commander (1988) Alien From the Deep (1989) Indio (1989) Indio 2: The Revolt (1991) Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime (1993) Virtual Weapon (1997)

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