The Mighty Peking Man
Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster and discovers it's been raising a scantily-clad woman, Samantha, since she survived a plane crash years before that killed her parents. In the idyllic jungle, Johnny and Samantha fall in love. Then Johnny asks her to convince "Utam" to go to Hong Kong. Lu Tien, an unscrupulous promoter, takes over: Utam is in chains for freak show exhibitions. When Lu Tien assaults Samantha, Utam's protective instincts take over: havoc in Hong Kong.
From the archive
The Shaw Brothers take on King Kong. They don't physically fight him, they just retell the story with Chinese actors and a very much not Chinese heroine. Much like like Godzilla the monster is portrayed by an actor in a suit apparently made with real human hair for some reason. Evelyne Kraft plays Samantha but unlike Faye Ray's character t Samantha already lives on Kong Island as a jungle girl. This plot change allows Ms Kraft to spend a lot of time in a costume that does not cover much up.
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- Director
- Ho Meng-Hua
- Starring
- Evelyne Kraft, Danny Lee Sau-Yin, Ku Feng, Lam Wai-Tiu, Norman Tsui Siu-Keung, Ng Hong-Sang, Ted Thomas, Steve Nicholson
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