Blade in Hong Kong

{{short description|1985 action/adventure television film by Reza Badiyi}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Blade in Hong Kong.jpg | image_upright = 1.0 | image_alt = | caption = | genre = Action, crime | creator = | based_on = ''Blade in Hong Kong''<br>by [[Terry Becker]] | writer = {{ill|Gordon Cotler|fr}}<ref name="Gordon Cotler"> *{{cite news |title=Writer Gordon Cotler dies at 89 |url=https://variety.com/2013/scene/news/writer-gordon-cotler-dies-at-89-1118064990/ |access-date=14 October 2024 |work=[[Variety.com]] |date=23 January 2013}} *[https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/gordon-cotler Gordon Cotler] – [[The New Yorker]] *site:classic.esquire.com/article/ "Gordon Cotler" *"The New York Times" "By Gordon Cotler" *[https://www.theatlantic.com/author/gordon-cotler/ Gordon Cotler] - [[The Atlantic]] *[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/gordon-cotler/ Gordon Cotler] - [[Kirkus Reviews]] *[https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/gordon-cotler.html Gordon Cotler] – [[Publishers Weekly]] *[https://www.fictiondb.com/author/gordon-cotler~18682.htm Gordon Cotler] - [[FictionDB]] *[https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/gordon-cotler-93526 Gordon Cotler] – [[IBDB]] *[https://playbill.com/person/gordon-cotler-writer Gordon Cotler (Writer)] - [[Playbill]] *[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/gordon_cotler Gordon Cotler] - [[Rotten Tomatoes]] *[https://m.filmaffinity.com/en/name.php?name-id=892127858 Gordon Cotler] – [[Filmaffinity]] </ref> | screenplay = | story = | director = [[Reza Badiyi]] | starring = [[Terry Lester]]<br>[[Leslie Nielsen]] | narrator = | music = [[David Kurtz (composer)|David Kurtz]] | country = United States | language = English | num_episodes = | producer = Terry Becker | editor = Leon Carrere | cinematography = Woody Omens | runtime = 91 minutes | company = Becker Enterprises Productions | budget = | network = [[CBS]] | released = {{start date|1985|05|15}} }} '''''Blade in Hong Kong''''' is a 1985 American action/adventure<ref>{{cite book|title=Bowker's complete video directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKszAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Bowker|isbn=978-0-8352-4308-7|page=180}}</ref> television film directed by Iranian-born director [[Reza Badiyi]].<ref name="Roberts2009">{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=Jerry|title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&pg=PA22|date=5 June 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6378-1|page=22}}</ref> It is based on a novel by [[Terry Becker]].<ref name="Goble1999">{{cite book|last=Goble|first=Alan|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&pg=PA691|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-095194-3|page=691}}</ref> It stars [[Terry Lester]] as a suave private eye who becomes embroiled in a battle against the [[Hong Kong]] underworld.<ref name="Pulcini1987">{{cite book|last=Pulcini|first=Kathleen|title=The Video directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ynEe9_R7N60C|date=August 1987|publisher=Pendragon|isbn=978-0-681-57269-0|page=132}}</ref>

==Plot== Blade is a private investigator and the adopted son of a wealthy business tycoon in [[British Hong Kong]] in the 1980s. When a criminal gang attempts to murder Blade's father at his retirement party, Blade chases after the would-be assassins and uncovers a [[people smuggling]] scheme from mainland China and a [[hostage]] situation. This further leads him to accidentally collide with an elaborate plan to steal a priceless sacred artifact. Blade clashes with the [[Hong Kong Police Force|Royal Hong Kong Police Force]] over their disbelief of his story and takes matters into his own hands to free the hostage and reclaim the stolen artifact.

==Cast== *[[Terry Lester]] as Joe Blade *[[Leslie Nielsen]] as Harry Ingersoll *[[Nancy Kwan]] as Lily *[[Keye Luke]] as Chang Chin-tzu *[[James Hong]] as Key Tam *[[Jean Marie Hon]] as Mei-Ling *[[Ellen Regan]] as Krista Vale *[[Anthony Newley]] as Tommy T *[[Michael Preston]] as Charters

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=|title=Blade in Hong Kong}}

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