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Kung Fu - Dark Angel
episode 1.2
USA 1972
produced by
Jerry Thorpe for Warner Brothers/ABC
directed by Jerry Thorpe
starring David Carradine, John Carradine, Robert Carradine, Dean Jagger, Adrienne Marden, James Griffith, Paul Harper, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn, Larry Duran, Charles Bail, Bob Herron, Bill McLean, James Weatherill, Tim Haldeman, Radames Pera, Donald Eiber
written by Herman Miller, created by Ed Spielman, music by Jim Helms
TV-series
Kung Fu, Kwai Chang Caine
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Walking the countryside, Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine) happens
upon a dying man (Paul Harper), obviously a victim of an Indian attack,
and when he wants to take care of the body, he's threatened by Indians, he
earns their respect by defeating their leader in hand-on-hand combat.
Caine carries the dead body to the next town, where he's immediately
accused of murdering the man, on no solid grounds at all. But the local
preacher, Serenity Johnson (John Carradine) saves Caine from a lynch mob -
but for selfish purposes, as the dead man, a prospector, seems to have
found gold, and Johnson wants it. So when Caine tells him where he has
found the prospector, Johnson goes there - only for Caine finding him
later, crucified and blinded by the Indians. Johnson takes to drinking,
but Caine, using his Shaolin learnings, makes him see without eyes, and in
the end Johnson is more determined than ever to build his church, eyes or
no eyes. In an at first unrelated narrative thread, Caine is also able
to track down his granddad (Dean Jagger) in town, whom he comes to see to
learn more about his roots, but granddad is too prejudiced to even talk to
him, even when Caine sits in his courtyard for ten days solid. And now
it's up to Johnson to come by and make grandfather Caine see ... Robert
Carradine, David's brother and John's son, plays Serenity Johnson's mute
sidekick. This episode does feature some pretty epic imagery,
especially the scenes with the crucified John Carradine, but in all isn't
nearly as impressive as this pictures might suggest, and all the
"wisdom" that's transported in the episode comes across as
rather unsubtle on one hand and over-simplified on the other. That said,
the thing's well-acted and well-directed, it just seems to fall a few feet
short of its full potential.
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