A Couple of Great Overlooked Martial Arts Scenes
Hey, guys. I've been a crap blogger lately, and I hope you forgive me - all three of you! I've got a write up on the last couple episodes of Season One to hammer out and a good idea for a post on some great martial arts reading. Meanwhile I was clicking around in search of some little known fight scenes from past movies and I found a couple of gems I wanted to share. It's always interesting to see the scenes of martial arts that started appearing in western movies. If you haven't seen Jimmy Cagney whopping ass with judo in Blood on the Sun, please do say, and cross reference it with Spencer Tracy chopping down bad guys in Bad Day at Black Rock. But let's not forget how Frank Sinatra chopped and kicked his way through The Manchurian Candidate.
Nor this great scene from a little known movie with Robert Ryan and Harry Belafonte called Odds Against Tomorrow. Recognize anyone else in this clip? I'll give you a hint... you might want to "mash" your brain a bit.
Nor this great scene from a little known movie with Robert Ryan and Harry Belafonte called Odds Against Tomorrow. Recognize anyone else in this clip? I'll give you a hint... you might want to "mash" your brain a bit.
Labels: martial arts, movies
posted by Charlie Kondek at 11:15 AM
3 Comments:
Neat! Never spill a tough guy's milk! He must have given him the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. :o)
At first I was looking for Boris Karloff (Monster Mash) in the vid, heheh. Sinatra is amazing in Manchurian Candidate, as is everyone else, that's a great movie.
In case you haven't seen this, in some research on Ingmar Bergman I came across another obit for Carradine on the Bergman site that you might want for your Caine archives: obit
Looking forward to the future posts!
Oops, I thought he was drinkig milk, watching it again I see now that it's the beer chaser. X-D
But you know what, how much cooler would it have been if it HAD been milk?!
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