Книга: Film Series With Five Entries: Highlander, Mobile Suit Gundam, Superman, the Cremaster Cycle, Police Story, Dirty Harry, Death Wish

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Highlander, Mobile Suit Gundam, Superman, the Cremaster Cycle, Police Story, Dirty Harry, Death Wish, Return of the Living Dead, the Omen, the Gods Must Be Crazy, Aces Go Places, Silent Night, Deadly Night. Excerpt: Aces Go Places (), or Mad Mission (US title), is a series of Hong Kong action comedy films that are parodies of the James Bond film series.The films star Sam Hui as King Kong, a master thief and martial arts expert who is aided by his bumbling sidekick, Albert 'Baldy' Au, portrayed by Karl Maka .The series began in 1982, with the first two films directed by Eric Tsang . Subsequent films were directed, respectively by Tsui Hark , Ringo Lam and Lau Kar-leung .A sixth film, '97 Aces Go Places was made in 1997 with a different cast.Titles in the series A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The Death Wish franchise is an action -crime -drama film series based on the 1972 novel by Brian Garfield . The films feature Paul Kersey , portrayed by Charles Bronson , as the main character. Kersey was born in New York City of the early 1920s. Kersey's father was an English-American who originated from Norman England and his mother comes from Provo, Utah . Kersey's Norman English ancestor, Pierre Whitmore Keersye, anglicized his surname to Kersey . Kersey served in World War II from 1944 to 1945. In 1953, he served in the Korean War in the medical corps. In the late 1950s, he travelled to New York City to settle down. Films Death Wish (1974) Paul Kersey is an architect who served in the Korean War in the medical corps, and he lives in New York City. One day, three street punks posing as grocery delivery boys break into his apartment while he's not home. They beat up Paul's wife Joanna and rape his married daughter Carol Toby, spray-painting both of them 'just for fun.' Joanna...