[age 68]
With his cheeky grin, David Chiang was one of many Seventies Hong Kong Kung Fu film stars suggested as the successor to Bruce Lee's crown of King of Kung Fu.
Standout film for me: 1974's The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, co-starring Hammer's leading man Peter Cushing and European beauty Julie Ege. Hammer teamed up with Kung Fu kings the Shaw Brothers for their final bite at Dracula giving them a wholly new way of blood-letting with the help of Chinese swords and spears.
Standout film for me: 1974's The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, co-starring Hammer's leading man Peter Cushing and European beauty Julie Ege. Hammer teamed up with Kung Fu kings the Shaw Brothers for their final bite at Dracula giving them a wholly new way of blood-letting with the help of Chinese swords and spears.
The unique transfusion of British gothic horror into Hong Kong's Wuxia film industry bombed at the cinema but for some the 7 Golden Vampires remains Hammer's greatest 1970's flick, tapping as it does into the now waning vampire vein and the burgeoning global Martial Arts craze sparked by Bruce Lee's The Big Boss in 1971.
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