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| Mighty Peking Man. Courtesy: Celestial Pictures |
A spectacular action-romance,
Mighty Peking Man is Hong Kong's take on
King Kong.
Peking Man - the name given to skeletal
Homo erectus remains found near Beijing in 1929 - is brought to life in the film as the giant Ah Wang (the film's Kong character).
Sleazy Hong Kong promoter Mr Lu commissions handsome hero Chen Zhengfeng (Danny Lee) to help him track down a mythical ape-like monster seen roaming the jungles of India.
The hero is nabbed by the beast, then rescued by jungle waif Ah Wei (Swiss bombshell Evelyne Kraft). A series of fantastically kitsch sequences portray Chen Zhengfeng and Ah Wei's ensuing romance.
The jungle idyll can't last forever and, when Ah Wang is transported back to Hong Kong, the scene is set for the inevitable rampage in the city.
