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Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold

USA/Hong Kong 1975
produced by
William Tennant, Run Run Shaw for Warner Brothers, Shaw Brothers
directed by Charles Bail
starring Tamara Dobson, Tanny Tien Ni, Stella Stevens, Albert Popwell, Caro Kenyatta, Chan Shen, Christopher Hunt, Norman Fell, Lin Chen-Chi, Sing Mui Kwok, John Cheng, Tony Lee, Rich King, Liu Locke Hua, Eddy Donno, Bobby Canavarro, Gigo Tevzadze, Lok Sing
written by William Tennant

Cleopatra Jones

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Working for Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) undercover as big time drugdealers, the Kung Fu-trained Johnson Brothers (Albert Popwell, Caro Kenyatta) try to set up a drugdeal with Mr Chen (Chan Shen), only to get into some kind of turf war between him & his goons & the Dragon Lady (Stella Stevens) & her henchies, & soon they end up as the Dragon Lady's prisoners/guests of honour.

Cleo, worried stiff about the whereabouts of her employees goes to Hong Kong herself, & despite the reservations of her boss Stanley (Norman Fell) decides to take up investigations on her own, but soon realizes she might have taken too large a bite to chew on ... when she recieves unexpected help from Mai Ling (Tanny Tien Ni), a local private detective experienced in martial arts & with a large collection of guns, who readily jumps in to help her.

The 2 of them - along with Mai Ling's colleagues - go out of their way to find Chen, all under the watchful eye of the Dragon Lady, who doesn't like someone spying around in her turf one bit, & who makes unsuccessful attempts at both Cleo's & Mai Ling's lives. In the end, when Cleo & Mai Ling find Chen, he is already dead, killed by the Dragon Lady's goons ... but they find a clue leading to the Dragon Lady's Casino of Gold in Macao, which they enter as guests, only for Cleo to soon become the Dragon Ladys prisoner, who has of course since found out Cleo & the Kung Fu Brothers are in league. But Mai Ling hasn't forgotten her posse at home, & they soon storm the casino & lay it to rubble, with all kinds of guns, motorbikes & even their bare hands ... & the Dragon Lady - Cleo has to kill her in a fierce & brutal fight ...

 

To blend blaxploitation & Eastern (martial arts) cinema in an US/Hong Kong coproduction does look a good idea on paper, since added to the blaxploitation ruggedness, you get exotic settings (of Hong Kong & Macao), and actors & crew experienced in stageing martial arts, which sounds like the perfect requirements for an action movie ... The finished product however falls a few meters short of its promises: The exotic locales have at best travelogue quality & the martial arts are considerably toned down (mainly, it seems, to the fact that Tamara Dobson can't perform any). All isn't helped either by the very silly plot, inadequate acting by Dobson &  the Kung Fu Brothers Popwell & Kenyatta(who don't do any martial arts either), and very stupid & stilted dialogue - especially the exchanges between Dobson & Tanny Tien Ni are abysmal.

The finale, in which a whole casino is thrashed by any means possible does at least provide some innocent fun, though.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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