The Green Hornet

After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this property, of which this 1974 effort is the first. The bulk of the film consists of four episodes crudely spliced together. Scattered throughout are bizarrely irrelevant fight scenes from other episodes, which make the already disjointed plotting quite surreal. The television image was cropped to make a widescreen film, which means the tops of heads and hats are lopped off the frame with alarming regularity.

Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck, William Beaudine, Norman Foster

Cast: Van Williams, Bruce Lee, Charles Bateman, Geoffrey Horne, Mako, Wende Wagner, Lloyd Gough, Walter Brooke

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.