Enter the Dragon

Director: Robert Clouse

1973 / 110min / 35mm

Bruce Lee was dead at the age of 32 when Enter the Dragon—a co-production between Hong Kong’s Golden Harvest and Warner Bros. intended to be his big break-out with American audiences—was released, but it wasn’t the morbid allure of tragedy that made him the biggest international Asian star the planet had ever seen. Lee was the total package: dashing, charming, tough as nails, and a whirlwind force when he sprang into action. All is on full display in Clouse’s sleek martial arts/espionage thriller, capped by a Lady from Shanghai-inspired hall-of-mirrors showdown with Shih Kien’s claw-handed criminal warlord. Blink and you’ll miss none other than a pre-fame Jackie Chan getting his neck snapped by the Great One.