THEY CALL HER CLEOPATRA WONG
(Bobby A. Suarez, 1978) repro poster SIGNED BY MARRIE LEE!
Full colour poster (59.5cm x
42cm) with a magnificent design, actress Marrie Lee's own reproduction of the
original cinema poster, SIGNED BY MARRIE LEE at her Brisbane International Film
Festival appearance, August 2006.
SYNOPSIS: “She purrs like a
kitten... makes love like a siren!” Outrageous pan-Asian actioner starring
Singaporean beauty Marrie Lee as the high-kicking disco diva, weapons expert
and secret agent Cleopatra Wong. While on holiday in Manila, Cleo uncovers a major currency
counterfeit operation, and immediately her kindly but sleazy Interpol chief
orders her on the trail. Clad in orange hotpants and white boots, shooting
through thin air on a turbo bike and taking on thirty balding wrestlers at
once, it’s little wonder fanboy Asian fetishist Quentin Tarantino cites Cleo as
a major inspiration for his Kill Bill series.
In a classy display of
Filipino ingenuity, producer/director Bobby A. Suarez milks his international
locations for all his micro-budget allows: from a chop-sockfest above Hong Kong
harbour and a riotous free-for-all on Singapore’s Sentosa Island to the film’s
explosive finale, a thirty-minute undercover raid on a monastery with Cleo and
co in nuns’ habits (and mustaches) tearing up the Philippines countryside in
possibly the only entry in the "Nuns with Guns" subgenre.
Cleopatra Wong is a landmark
film in Filipino cinema for a number of reasons - the first international hit
from an all-local production as well as start of the hugely successful Cleo
Wong series (Dynamite Johnson, Devil’s Angels). Canny exploitation genius
Suarez gleefully mixes equal parts black chick superhero Cleopatra Jones, the
gadget-laden internationalism of James Bond films, and the still-popular antics
of Bruce Lee. Never has Filipino cinema been so gloriously derivative, so
cheesily Seventies, or so much goofy, jaw-on-the-floor fun.
CONDITION: The poster has
the slightest of crease marks on the bottom left edge, almost unnoticeable, and
is otherwise in excellent condition.
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