Bruce Lee was on the cusp of becoming one of the biggest movie stars in the world when he died at the age of 32 on July 20, 1973. Six days later, Lee’s first film made with Hollywood studio involvement, “Enter the Dragon,” opened to huge business in Hong Kong. The movie hit United States theaters the following month and gave the entire country kung-fu fever. The genre thrived, but the man who touched off this frenzy was gone, which was hard for his newfound legion of fans to accept.
While real-deal martial arts practitioners like Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan stepped up to sate moviegoers’ karate cravings, Hong Kong film producers spied…
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