Dreadnaught (Chinese: 勇者無懼) is a 1981 Hong Kong martial arts comedy-horror film starring Yuen Biao and directed by Yuen Woo-ping.[1] The film was released on 5 March 1981.
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Directed by | Yuen Woo-ping |
Screenplay by | Peace Group |
Story by | Wong Jing |
Produced by | Raymond Chow |
Starring | Yuen Biao Bryan Leung Kwan Tak-hing |
Cinematography | Ma Koon-wa |
Edited by | Peter Cheung |
Music by | Frankie Chan |
Production company | Golden Harvest |
Distributed by | Golden Harvest |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Cantonese |
Box office | HK$5,618,598 |
A short-tempered, violent criminal named White Tiger is on the run from the police and joins a theater troupe to hide out, killing anyone who angers him or who suspects his identity. One person he unsuccessfully tries to kill several times is a cowardly laundry man named Mousy, who manages to escape by fleeing. When Mousy's close friend and elder brother figure, Leung Foon, is killed by White Tiger, Mousy overcomes his cowardliness enough to seek revenge.
In a scene early on in the film, Mousy is washing the laundry with his bossy sister. After complaining about the repetitiveness of laundry work, his sister scolds him and demands he wash the clothes in the "family way." This leads to a scene with Mousy flipping the clothes around with his hands and wringing them out with powerful squeezing from his index finger and middle finger. These abilities turn out to be related to kung-fu methods, as Mousy eventually uses the same laundry method to defeat White Tiger.
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