#sammo hung

𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗕'𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗢 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗚

Yuen Biao's fantastic jump off a two-storey burning building, from Millionaires' Express (1986).

He did not land on pads; Hong Kong and Chinese actors and stuntmen did not use them. Instead, Yuen landed on some empty cardboard boxes buried just below the ground.

For those who have not seen this film, you're missing a real treat. Directed by and starring Sammo Hung, it's a rip-roaring Hong Kong martial arts Western comedy. It stars a veritable who's who of Hong Kong and martial arts stars, including Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Yuen Wah, Yukari Ôshima, Jimmy Wang Yu, Shih Kien, Phillip Ko, and a host of others.

Ostensibly about a train heist, the movie can best be described as a Hong Kong-version of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Hung and his team threw everything except the kitchen sink into the film: cowboys, samurai, ninjas, Sherlock Holmes, cops and robbers, Wong Wei Hung, American calvary, jailbreaks, and even the CIA!

All that shouldn't work, but it does, because no one (except Richard Norton, who never seems to know how to loosen up) is taking anything seriously. There are laughs galore, incredible stunts, and some really great fights.

The film is perhaps best known for the final fight between Sammo and Cynthia Rothrock. The pint-sized Rothrock (I've met her a few times, and she's the nicest lady, but really tiny) mops the floor with Sammo, but everything works out in the end.