''Walk Like a Dragon'' is a 1960 American

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film directed by

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, written by James Clavell and

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, and starring

Jack Lord John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998), best known by his stage name, Jack Lord, was an American television, film and Broadway actor, director and producer. He starred as Steve McGarrett in the CBS television progra ...

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James Shigeta James Saburo Shigeta ( ja, 繁田三郎) (June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American actor of Japanese descent. He was noted for his roles in ''The Crimson Kimono'' (1959), '' Walk Like a Dragon'' (1960), ''Flower Drum Song'' (1961), ...

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and

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. It was released on June 1, 1960, by

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. The film has a retroactive connection to Clavell's later

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novels; the 1981 novel '' Noble House'' features a character named Lincoln Bartlett who is said to be a descendant of the similarly named character played by Jack Lord in this movie.

Plot

It is California during the 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln Bartlett, better known as 'Linc', comes to San Francisco and meets the Chinese Kim Sung at a slave fair, who is forced to work as a prostitute. To protect her from that environment, Linc decides to buy Kim for $750 in gold nuggets and let her live and work at his home. Linc's mother is not happy that a Chinese girl lives in their house and even less happy when Kim Sung and her son fall in love. Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant, is jealous and in order to take on Linc, he decides to take gunfighter lessons from 'The Deacon'. Film's introduction: :''California in the 1870s was rough and violent. Men were plentiful, but women were scarce. So girls were secretly and illegally imported from China, and sold as slaves. They were used, but scorned and isolated. This is a story of those times... It happened.''

Cast

as Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett *

as Kim Sung *

as Cheng Lu *

as The Deacon *

as Ma Bartlett *

as Sheriff Marguelez *

as Wu *

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as Rev. Will Allen *

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as Mme. Lili Raide *Don Kennedy as Masters *

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as Cabot *

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as Peter Mott *Michael Ross as Taffy *Charles Irwin as Angus *

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as Jethro the Bartender * Tony Young as Cabot *

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as Mrs. Susan Allen

Reception

The film received mixed reviews by critics.Variety
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References

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