A Queen's Ransom

A Queen's Ransom
Film poster
Traditional Chinese鱷潭群英會
Simplified Chinese鳄潭群英会
Hanyu PinyinÈ Tán Qún Yīng Huì
JyutpingNgok6 Taam6 Kwan4 Jing1 Wui2
Directed byTing Shan-hsi
Screenplay byTing Shan-hsi
Produced byRaymond Chow
StarringJimmy Wang Yu
Angela Mao
George Lazenby
Judith Brown
Ko Chun-hsiung
Charles Heung
Dean Shek
Edited byPeter Cheung
Music byStanley Chow
Production
company
Distributed byGolden Harvest
Release date
  • 16 September 1976 (1976-09-16)
CountryHong Kong
LanguageMandarin
Box officeHK$553,290.10

A Queen's Ransom (Chinese: 鱷潭群英會), also known as The International Assassin, is a 1976 Hong Kong action film about a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. The film was written and directed by Ting Shan-hsi and starred Jimmy Wang Yu, Angela Mao, George Lazenby, Judith Brown, Ko Chun-hsiung, Charles Heung and Dean Shek, whom also serves as the film's assistant director.

Plot

During Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Hong Kong in 1975, a group of criminals plan her assassination.

Cast

Production

Taiwanese director Ting Shan-hsi was hired by Golden Harvest off the back of his successful film, Everlasting Glory (1974).[1]

It was the last of three films George Lazenby made for Golden Harvest, the others being Stoner and The Man from Hong Kong.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Program description of film Archived 1 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 1 May 2014
  2. ^ A Queens Ransom at Cityonfire.com
  3. ^ A Queen's Ransom review at Temple of Schlock


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