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Dreadnaught
Film poster
Directed byYuen Woo-ping
Screenplay byPeace Group
Story byWong Jing
Produced byRaymond Chow
StarringYuen Biao
Bryan Leung
Kwan Tak-hing
CinematographyMa Koon-wa
Edited byPeter Cheung
Music byFrankie Chan
Production
company
Distributed byGolden Harvest
Release date
  • 5 March 1981 (1981-03-05)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$5,618,598

Dreadnaught (Chinese: 勇者無懼) is a 1981 Hong Kong martial arts comedy-horror film starring Yuen Biao and directed by Yuen Woo-ping.[1] The film was released on 5 March 1981.

In the film, the fugitive criminal White Tiger systematically kills anyone who threatens or angers him. With the exception of the laundry man Mousy, who keeps evading his attacks. Eventually, Mousy uses his kung-fu skills to fight back and defeat the White Tiger.

Plot

A short-tempered, violent criminal named White Tiger is on the run from the police and joins a theater troupe to hide out, killing anyone who angers him or who suspects his identity. One person he unsuccessfully tries to kill several times is a cowardly laundry man named Mousy, who manages to escape by fleeing. When Mousy's close friend and elder brother figure, Leung Foon, is killed by White Tiger, Mousy overcomes his cowardliness enough to seek revenge.

In a scene early on in the film, Mousy is washing the laundry with his bossy sister. After complaining about the repetitiveness of laundry work, his sister scolds him and demands he wash the clothes in the "family way." This leads to a scene with Mousy flipping the clothes around with his hands and wringing them out with powerful squeezing from his index finger and middle finger. These abilities turn out to be related to kung-fu methods, as Mousy eventually uses the same laundry method to defeat White Tiger.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Eighties Martial-Arts Comedy 'Dreadnaught' Is an Irrepressible High-Wire Act". The Village Voice. 9 June 2015.