Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- Hong Kong SAR China
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- In Chinese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- gorilla
- exploitation
- prehistory
- hong kong
- giant ape
- jungle girl
- knockoff
- caveman
- king kong
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Norman Tsui Siu-Keung — Dr. Ah Long
- Ng Hong-Sang — Dr. Ah Pi
- Ted Thomas — Commissioner
- Steve Nicholson — Commissioner's Aide
- Hsiao Yao — Huang Tsui Hua
- Chen Ping — Lucy
- Lee Sau-Kei — Views Peking Man at Stadium
- Wang Han-Chen — Views Peking Man at Stadium (uncredited)
- Ting Tung — Ship Crew (uncredited)
- Keizô Murase — Ah Wang / Peking Man (stunts)
- Alexander Grand — Radio Operator
- Directed
- Ho Meng-Hua
- Written
- Ni Kuang
Production
- Rating
- 5.1 / 10 · 65 ratings
- Studio
- Shaw Brothers
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
