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The Terror of the Tongs is a 1961 British adventure film directed by Anthony Bushell and starring Geoffrey Toone, Christopher Lee and Yvonne Monlaur. Plot. In the year of 1910, Mr. Ming is an agent of a group which secretly fights against tongs, China's criminal organizations. To fulfill his mission, he takes a ship to Hong Kong.
The Terror of the Tongs: Directed by Anthony Bushell. With Christopher Lee, Yvonne Monlaur, Geoffrey Toone, Marne Maitland. In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge.
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The Terror of the Tongs is a 1961 British adventure film directed by Anthony Bushell from Hammer Film Productions, and starring Geoffrey Toone, Christopher Lee and Yvonne Monlaur.
In the year of 1910, Hong Kong members of the secret Red Dragon Tong crime family protect their identities by murdering Helena Sale, the daughter of Captain Jackson Sale, a British sea officer who vows revenge and defies the spread of fear created by the tongs. Helped by a mysterious beggar and a young serving girl named Lee, Sale discovers there i...
•Christopher Lee as Chung King, Leader of the Red Dragon Tong's Hong Kong division and the primary antagonist.
•Geoffrey Toone as Captain Jackson Sale, a leading figure in the colony and primary protagonist whose daughter is murdered by the tongs.
•Yvonne Monlaur as Lee, a mixed-race serving girl and Sale's love interest.
•Marne Maitland as the Beggar, an agent of an underground movement against the tongs.
•Brian Worth as District Commissioner Harcourt.
•Ewen Solon as Tang How, Tong Leader's Aide and Chung King's right-hand man.
The Terror of the Tongs was quickly shot within the months of April and May 1960.
The film is a quasi-remake of Hammer's 1959 film The Stranglers of Bombay. The setting is changed to Hong Kong in 1910 from India in the 19th century but the basic plot of a middle-aged, yet youthful hero attempting to uncover the crimes of a secret sect in a British colony, being captured by the sect, and later released, having a personal stake in the outcome, finding that there is an inside villain, and losing friends or family are all there.
The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films wrote of the film: "The Terror of the Tongs, perhaps thankfully a rarely-seen film, remains resolutely undistinguished in almost every department."
A tie-in to the film written by Jimmy Sangster and based upon his screenplay was published by Digit Books in 1961.
On the film's opening matinee showing at a Picture House in Sauchiehall Street Glasgow, a crowd of rowdy teenagers and young adults both male and female ran down the street shouting "tongs" causing a melee in which the police had to be called. To this day in Glasgow gang culture the cry of "tongs ya bass" can often be heard wherever youths come tog...
•The Terror of the Tongs has been released on DVD and Blu Ray.
•The Terror of the Tongs is NOT currently available on any streaming service or VOD platform.
Dark Night Films host Matt Spease reviews the classic Hammer Film Productions action drama film The Terror of the Tongs (1961), directed by Anthony Bushell and starring Christopher Lee,...
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After his daughter is murdered, a sea captain seeks revenge against a powerful organized crime group known as the Red Dragon Tong. The Terror of the Tongs isn't the kind of film you normally think of when Hammer Films comes to mind. There is nothing supernatural, there is no gothic atmosphere, and this isn't a recycled Universal horror film.
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In the year of 1910, Hong Kong members of the secret Red Dragon Tong crime family protect their identities by murdering Helena Sale, the daughter of Captain Jackson Sale, a British sea officer who vows revenge and defies the spread of fear created by the tongs.
