猩猩王

猩猩王 (1977)

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.

Data de estreia
1977-08-11
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (65)
Duração
1 h 30 min
Géneros
Ação, Fantasia, Aventura, Terror
Realizador
何夢華

Elenco

Curiosidades

The Mighty Peking Man, as known as Goliathon in the United States, is a 1977 Hong Kong monster film directed by Ho Meng-hua and starring Danny Lee, Evelyne Kraft and Ku Feng. It was produced by Shaw Brothers Studio to capitalize on the craze surrounding the 1976 remake of King Kong.

Production

The Mighty Peking Man had a budget of six million Hong Kong dollars for the Shaw Bros. studio. The film took over a year to complete and was shot in Mysore, India. The climactic confrontation scene was shot at the Connaught Centre in Hong Kong, which was then the tallest building in the country.

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