Pushing the Boundaries: Enter the Dragon (1973) 4K Restoration
Director: Robert Clouse Run Time: 102 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1973
Starring: Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly, John Saxon, Robert Wall, Sek Kin
Country: Hong Kong, United States
Language: English, Cantonese
The 1970s: Pushing the Boundaries
A Film Center retrospective on the most groundbreaking films to come out of the 1970s.
See more Pushing the BoundariesAbout the film:
Bruce Lee explodes onto the screen in the film that rocketed him to international superstardom, Enter The Dragon (1973). Recruited by an intelligence agency, martial arts student Lee participates in a brutal tournament at a remote island fortress in an attempt to gather enough evidence to convict the international drug-trafficker responsible for the murder of Lee’s sister. In the now-classic fight-to-the-death finish, two men enter a mirrored maze, but only one will exit…
” a sort of carnival of combat that can turn even a sophisticated audience into a group of gawking kids at a Saturday matinee.”
—Jay Cocks, Time
About the filmmaker:
Robert Clouse was an an American film director and producer known for his impact in the action/adventure and martial arts genres. Clouse made his feature film-directing debut in 1970 with the action mystery Darker than Amber (1970), followed by the drama Dreams of Glass (1970), which he also wrote. Clouse was best-known for his two most successful films: Enter the Dragon (1973) and Game of Death (1978). In 2004, Enter the Dragon (1973) was deemed “culturally significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, just seven years after Clouse passed away.
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