Dreadnaught (film)

Dreadnaught

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Directed by Yuen Woo-ping
Produced by Raymond Chow
Screenplay by Peace Group
Story by Wong Jing
Starring Yuen Biao
Bryan Leung
Kwan Tak-hing
Music by Frankie Chan
Cinematography Ma Koon-wa
Edited by Peter Cheung
Production
company
Distributed by Golden Harvest
Release date
  • 5 March 1981 (1981-03-05)
Running time
 90 minutes
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese
Box office HK$5,618,598

Dreadnaught (Chinese: 勇者無懼) is a 1981 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Yuen Woo-ping and starring Yuen Biao, Bryan Leung and Kwan Tak-hing.

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 this 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

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