{"id":42503,"date":"2026-09-03T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42503"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:32:32","slug":"enter-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42503","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Enter the Dragon&#8221; (1973) starring Bruce Lee, John Saxon and Jim Kelly \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z090326review_etd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Enter the Dragon <\/i>(1973)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Robert Clouse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Michael Allin; Bruce Lee<\/strong> (uncredited)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Ahna Capri, Bob Wall, Shih Kien <\/strong>and <strong>Jim Kelly<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Their deadly mission: to crack the forbidden island of Han!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Han is a crime lord.\u00a0 On his private island his word is law.\u00a0 Han runs a worldwide drug distribution and human trafficking operation.\u00a0 Each year Han invites the world&#8217;s best martial artists to take part in a competition that he hosts on the island.\u00a0 The winners are potential recruits to his organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">British Intelligence wants to bring down Han, but they need firsthand evidence. They approach Lee, a martial artist and Shaolin monk.\u00a0 Lee agrees to go undercover as a participant in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Roper, a gambler who loves the good life, is in debt to the mob.\u00a0 He heads to the island hoping to win money in Han&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Williams heads to the island to particpate in the tournament after an incident with racist cops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lee, Roper and Williams find themselves under suspicion when Han discovers that someone (but who?) is on his island for reasons other than the tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whoever it is must die.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jackie Chan plays one of Han&#8217;s henchmen who battles Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Lee died three weeks before the premiere of <em>Enter the Dragon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Enter the Dragon<\/em> is a classic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Enter the Dragon <\/i>(1973)<\/strong> rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z090326review_etd2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enter the Dragon (1973) Director: Robert Clouse Screenplay: \u00a0Michael Allin; Bruce Lee (uncredited) Stars:\u00a0 Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Ahna Capri,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42645,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42503\/revisions\/42645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}