The Mighty Peking Man

Aug 11, 1977

1h 30m

★ 5.2

Action... Excitement... Spectacle beyond your wildest dreams!

Overview

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.

Genres

Action

Fantasy

Adventure

Horror

Production Companies

Shaw Brothers

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Cast

Ah Wei

Evelyne Kraft

Johnny Chen Zheng Feng

Danny Lee Sau-Yin

Lu Tien

Ku Feng

Chen Shi Yu

Lam Wai-Tiu

Huang Tsui Hua

Hsiao Yao

Lucy

Chen Ping

Dr. Ah Long

Norman Tsui

Dr. Ah Pi

Ng Hong-Sang

The Commissioner

Theodore Thomas

The Commissioner's Aide

Steve Nicholson

Views Peking Man at Stadium

Lee Sau-Kei

Views Peking Man at Stadium

Wang Han-Chen

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The Mighty Peking Man

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