Shatter

Dec 6, 1974

1h 30m

★ 5.8

Mr. Shatter isn't crushproof, but cross him and he'll put you in a box!

Overview

Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.

Genres

Action

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

Hammer Film Productions

Shaw Brothers

AVCO Embassy Pictures

Shatter Trailers

Cast

Shatter

Stuart Whitman

Tai Pah / Tai Kung

Ti Lung

Mai Mee

Lily Li

Paul Rattwood

Peter Cushing

Hans Leber

Anton Diffring

Japanese karate fighter

Ko Hung

Korean taekwondo fighter

Keung Hon

Thai Boxer

James Ma Chim-Si

Hans Leber's Girl

Lau Nga-Ying

Referee Hanson Lee

Lee Hoi-Sang

Hans Leber's Bodyguard

Huang Pei-Chih

Hans Leber's Bodyguard

Lau Kar-Wing

Warlord Yu Ming gained great power for himself. Anyone he suspected of disloyalty was jailed or murdered. He himself was a notorious killer, having personally betrayed his friend General Yip and then slaughtered his entire family. But the General's son escaped to tell the tale, and spent a lifetime learning all the martial arts, with the sole aim of one day killing his evil enemy Yu Ming. Only first he must lure him away from his private army of thugs and gangster.

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