Bruce Lee, "The Kid"

[W Hong]

Bruce Lee, "The Kid" DVD at Best Buy stores

For the first time ever on DVD, from Cinema Epoch, comes…


THE KID
Featuring Bruce Lee in his first starring role!


Based upon the comic strip “Kiddy Cheung”, The Kid stars a 10-year old BRUCE LEE playing an orphaned child selling comics in from a stall in the slums to survive. When the local gangs move in, it’s up to ‘Bruce’ to keep the streets clean.


“A great example of early Cantonese cinema, a showcase of a little boy who grows up to become a huge star, THE KID is a movie not to be missed.” – The Illuminated Lantern


For fans of Martial Arts Classics, this early film (1950) starring the one and only BRUCE LEE is an absolute MUST HAVE.


“Bruce Lee, at 10, is readily identifiable; when he pretends to be a teacher to make the other kids laugh, he juts out his lower jaw in exactly the way he would do in his films 20 years later to intimidate his opponents. While obviously still a kid and prone to overacting (come to think of it, the latter might be a trait he never quite got rid of), he is an entertaining figure. His real-life father, Lee Hoi-cheun, plays the rich tightwad Hung. (Except from the Illuminated Lantern Review of The Kid, available to read at http://www.illuminatedlantern.com/cinema/review/archives/kid_the.php.)


THE KID releases to DVD on December 4, 2007 and is available at Best Buy stores and Amazon.com

[JKDISBEST]

Sweet. I might just have to go get that DVD. Bruce is the man, even when he was a boy.

[冠木侍]

Sounds interesting. I must admit before this, I have never heard of this movie.

[GeneChing]

This is often cited as Bruce Lee's first major role - he was 10. It came up on Hulu+ about a month ago and I had never seen it before, just clips and stills. It's an HK B&W film, very sparse, shot back before they understood soundtracks. Bruce's dad has a role in it too. All of the characters are ugly, like bad *****y stereotypes. Bruce is a poor orphan who falls in with some petty gangsters as his ward, a good-hearted teacher, tries to redeem him. It's all about Bruce. At 10, he's so precocious, over-acting in that singular way of his, even thumbing his nose like he does during fights. And there's even a fight scene, a schoolyard-like scuffle between kids, something totally disengaging except for the fact that it's Bruce. Seeing Bruce starring in less than half a dozen martial arts films and a smattering of TV roles, this is a must see, just to see him as a kid.