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Originally Posted by DJBenz  I caught the first half of Hard to Kill on Channel 5 last night and it brought back memories of how much I enjoyed his early stuff. Ultra cheesy acting, but at the time it was a whole new angle on the martial arts genre as his Aikido wasn't as flashy as the high-kicking action that we'd come to expect. |
Exactly, all of his early films had at least one great fight sequence. They had more in common with the brutal bar room fight in Don Siegel's
Coogan's Bluff than any martial arts films being released at that time. That's what made him stand out from all the other 'western' martial artists.