Review of Fury of the Dragon

FURY OF THE DRAGON is the second film compilation of the short lived but memorable 1960's TV series THE GREEN HORNET starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet and Bruce Lee as Kato. The first film compilation released in 1974,THE GREEN HORNET was a much better edited and carefully constructed film compilation of the TV series released by 20th Century Fox who chose rather carefully the best episodes of the series to make a slightly cohesive 90 minute feature film. Unfortunately,that is not the case for this second film compilation which was released by an independent film company and not by Fox and it definitely shows in it's shoddiness in editing the various episodes of the show just to showcase Lee's fighting scenes and not to try to establish some kind of story cohesiveness in the film itself. Some 15 episodes of the show are used in this compilation,even footage from the four episodes that was used for the first film compilation of The Green Hornet that was released in theaters two years earlier. As a result,the film makes little sense at all compared with the first film compilation of the Hornet TV series and for that reason,FURY OF THE DRAGON is much more exploitive of Bruce Lee in the way it was shoddily made and rushed in it's production compared with the more watchable first film compilation,THE GREEN HORNET.