Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Western
Release Year: 1972
Country: USA
Runtime: 60
Rating: 7.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Jack Sholder
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

A new breed of criminal.

It killed 37 people, robbed 6 banks, 2 liquor stores, a record shop and stole 2 ferraris. Now the fun starts. It just took over a police station.

Its only human on the outside...

Writing by: Jim Kouf - writer (as Bob Hunt)

Produced by: Stephen Diener - executive producer
Dennis Harris - executive producer
Jeffrey Klein - executive producer
Michael L. Meltzer - producer
Lee Muhl - executive producer
Gerald T. Olson - producer
Robert Shaye - producer

Cast: David Carradine - Kwai Chang Caine (45 episodes, 1972-1975)
Radames Pera - Young Kwai Chang Caine / ... (36 episodes, 1972-1975)
Keye Luke - Master Po (34 episodes, 1972-1975)
Philip Ahn - Master Kan (30 episodes, 1972-1975)
James Hong - Chun Yen / ... (8 episodes, 1973-1975)
Richard Loo - Master Sun / ... (7 episodes, 1972-1974)
James Weatherill - Deputy / ... (7 episodes, 1972-1975)
Victor Sen Yung - Tamo / ... (6 episodes, 1973-1974)
Tad Horino - Chemist / ... (6 episodes, 1973-1975)
Tim McIntire - Danny Caine / ... (5 episodes, 1973-1975)
Yuki Shimoda - Shun Low / ... (5 episodes, 1973-1974)

Music: Michael Convertino
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Plot Outline: The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
Plot: Kwai Chang Caine is a Shoalin Monk who is on the run after he killed the Chinese Emporers nephew after that coward killed his teacher in cold blood with a gun. He flees to America both to escape retaliation and to search for his brother in order to settle down in this new land. However, in his travels in the wild west, he can not help but continually run into trouble from desperados and other ruffians as they oppress the innocent, while bounty hunters pursue the price on his head. Against this, he has his skill of Kung-fu martial arts which proves to be devastatingly effective in this gun-dominated land

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
"Any unauthorized exhibition, distribution or copying of this film or any part thereof (including soundtrack) is an infringement of the relevant copyright and will subject the infringer to severe civil and criminal prosecution... not to mention a one-way ticket to Davanna."

Goofs: We know about 10 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: State of the broken windshield during the chase of the "uzi woman."

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• David Carradine got the lead role over martial arts legend Bruce Lee, who had extensive involvement in its development. The network felt the American audience was "not ready" for an Asian actor in the lead of a network series, even though Lee had been on "The Green Hornet" (1966).
• The set for the Shaolin Temple was originally a set used for the Camelot (1967) that was inexpensively and effectively converted for the Chinese setting.
• In several episodes, a younger Kwai Chang Caine was played by Keith Carradine, David Carradines younger brother. Their other brother Robert Carradine and their father John Carradine also appeared in episodes (as Sonny Jim and Serenity Johnson, respectively).

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