Biography: Benson Fong |
The story goes that Benson Fong was a California grocer when, in 1943, he was asked by a talent scout if he'd like to be in a movie (Asian types were, of course, highly sought after during the War years). Actually, Fong had been accepting occasional... more
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Cast: Candice Bergen Ryan O'Neal John Korty Benson Fong
Tags: Romance Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 92min
Get ready for another dose of love and loss in this sequel to the four-handkerchief classic Love Story (1970). Oliver Barrett (Ryan O'Neal) is emotionally devastated after the death of his wife Jenny, and while he tries to lose himself in his work as...
Cast: Hal B. Wallis
Tags: Romance Rock Musical Musical Comedy
Length: 106min
One of Elvis Presley's biggest moneymakers, Girls Girls Girls casts ol' swivel-hips as a tuna-boat fisherman working out of Hawaii. Elvis chases after all the wrong girls, while ignoring the girls who genuinely care for him. Here, as Ross Carpenter,...
Cast: Jerry Goldsmith James Coburn Lee J. Cobb
Tags: Spy Film Parody/Spoof Action Comedy Glamorized Spy Film
Length: 107min
James Coburn stars as super-spy Derek Flint in this action comedy which takes the tongue-in-cheek wit of the James Bond series and shifts it into high gear. Flint is an ultra-sophisticated operative of international intelligence agency Z.O.W.I.E. He's...
Cast: Oscar Hammerstein II Richard Rodgers
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Romance
Length: 133min
The only Rodgers and Hammerstein cinemadaptation to be produced by Universal Pictures, Flower Drum Song was, alas, also the only Rogers and Hammerstein film to lose money at the box office. It looks far better now than it did back in 1961, if only...
Tags: Drama Adventure Combat Films Melodrama Adventure Drama
Length: 98min
The celebrated author of 1975's ~Shogun, James Clavell, directs (and produced and wrote) this effective, if low-budget World War II drama. The story takes place in French Indochina (later Vietnam) where a group of two Red Cross doctors and seven...
Cast: Joseph Cotten Edmund Gwenn
Tags: Romance Crime Drama Political Thriller Crime Thriller
Length: 95min
Peking Express was the second remake of Josef vonSternberg's Shanghai Express. In the original film, a group of railroad passengers escaping war-torn China are overtaken by Chinese; in the first remake, Night Plane to Chungking, a plane is forced...
Cast: James Clavell Jack Lord
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 95min
Cowboy Line Bartlett (Jack Lord) comes to San Francisco and meets Kim Sung (Nobu McCarthy), a Chinese slave girl coveted by the manager of a whorehouse. To save her from this fate, Bartlett buys the girl himself and takes her home to serve as a...
Cast: Bette Davis Claude Rains Paul Henreid Jack L. Warner
Length: 112min
Deception is an operatic rehash of the 1929 film Jealousy. Music teacher Bette Davis--who evidently has a large student pool, judging by the size of her penthouse apartment--is reunited with her cellist lover Paul Henreid, whom she believed to have...
Cast: Sidney Toler
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 64min
Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) heads south of the border in this so-so series entry. With the help of Mexican police official Luis (Fortunio Bonanova), Chan looks high and low for a stolen atomic-bomb formula. The oriental detective is also "aided" by...
Tags: Combat Films Action
Length: 59min
With no stars or production values, Korea Patrol has the rough-edged look of a war documentary. Though billed third, veteran Asian-American actor Benson Fong is the star of the proceedings, playing a South Korean scout guiding a group of UN soldiers...
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