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Goliathon (1978)

Goliathon (The Mighty Peking Man) (1978) Resolution: 1923x2903
Description
The Mighty Peking Man (猩猩王 THE MIGHTY PEKING MAN) (Mandarin: Hsing Hsing Wang, Cantonese: Sing Sing Wong - literally "Orangutan King: THE MIGHTY PEKING MAN") is a 1977 film produced in Hong Kong by Shaw Brothers Studio to capitalize on the craze surrounding the 1976 remake of King Kong. The film was originally released in the US in 1980 as Goliathon. Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster and discovers it's been raising a scantily-clad woman, Samantha, since she survived a plane crash years before that killed her parents. In the idyllic jungle, Johnny and Samantha fall in love. Then Johnny asks her to convince "Utam" to go to Hong Kong. Lu Tien, an unscrupulous promoter, takes over: Utam is in chains for freak show exhibitions. When Lu Tien assaults Samantha, Utam's protective instincts take over: havoc in Hong Kong.
Tags
Goliathon, The Mighty Peking Man, 1978, Meng Hua Ho, Evelyne Kraft, Danny Lee, Feng Ku, Wei Tu Lin, Norman Chu, Li Hsiu-Hsien, Shao-Chiang Hsu, Hang-Sheng Wu, Theodore Thomas, Steve Nicholson, Lee Hassen, 猩猩王, 1977, 何夢華, 伊芙蓮嘉, 李修賢, 谷峰, 林偉圖, 蕭瑤, 陳萍, 徐少強, 吳杭生, animal film, beast, ape man
Out-Links
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