THAT MAN BOLT-1973-A Karate
expert/professional courier Jefferson Bolt (Fred Williamson) locked
up in a Macao prison is hired/blackmailed by a mysterious English man
named Griffiths (Byron Webster) to deliver 1 million dollars
from Hong Kong. When he lands in Las Vegas some mobsters try to kill
him, so after a car chase he gets help from another mobster Connie
(Jack Ging). At a casino he meets singer Samantha Nightingale (Teresa
Graves) and after they have sex she's killed in an attempt on Bolt's
life. He hightails it to Hong Kong where things get a little
confusing when an Asian assassin is hired by Javanese merchant banker
Kumata (Masatoshi Nakamura) to kill Bolt.
The acting, dialogue and
fights are sub-par but it also features appearances by Karate and
kickboxing champions like Mike Stone, Kenji Kazama, Emil Farkus and
David Chow.
THAT MAN BOLT has two credited directors. One Henry Levin
made his directing debut in 1944 with semi-horror movie CRY OF THE
WEREWOLF. In the 1970's he directed several Matt Helm movies. BOLT
was one of his last features. The other was David Lowell Rich who
started in TV around 1950 and continuing till the mid '60's when he
made some feature films like EYE OF THE CAT and THE PLAINSMAN. He
went back to TV making many TV movies and in the early '80's returned
to some feature film work including THE CONCORDE-AIRPORT '69.
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