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David Carradine, Barry Sullivan, Keith Carradine, Radames Pera, Season Hubley ... see more see more... , Philip Ahn , David Chow , Benson Fong , Robert Ito , Roy Jenson , Richard Loo , Keye Luke , Wayne Maunder , Albert Salmi , Victor Sen Yung , James Hong , John Blyth Barrymore , John Leoning , Leslie Nielsen

David Carradine first stepped into the sandals of taciturn martial-arts expert Caine in the made-for-TV pilot film Kung Fu. A Chinese/American priest, Caine must flee to the United States after he is ... read more read more...forced to kill a royal nephew. He wanders the American West of the 1860s, keeping his cool until it is necessary to display his kung-fu skills full force. Most often, he must meditate and conjure up a flashback dominated by Master Po (Keye Luke) before he is galvanized into action. In the pilot, Caine comes to the rescue of a group of Chinese coolies who are working on the railroad. First telecast February 22, 1972, Kung Fu spawned a long-running series of the 1970s--not to mentioned the "updated" syndicated weekly of the 1990s, which also starred the inscrutable Mr. Carradine. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 15 min.

Directed by: Charles Dubin, David Carradine, Jerry Thorpe, John Blyth Barrymore, John Leoning, Keith Carradine, Keye Luke, Leslie Nielsen, Philip Ahn, Radames Pera, Robert Butler, Walter Doniger, Alex Beaton, Barry Crane

Release Date: February 22, 1972

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DVD Release Date: March 16, 2004

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  • patrickdol
    March 19, 2008
    patrickdol
    It really makes me want to see the rest of the series, but as a movie in itself it just doesn't hold up. Especially with the ending, which did, however make me feel that there was alot of cool shit ahead...hence the fact I feel the show would be better.

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