Review of The Terror of the Tongs

As another reviewer has said, this is unusual Hammer fare - instead definitely action movie. The X certificate was not out of place at the time of its release - it is fairly graphic quite sadistic. One of Christopher Lee better roles as the much feared traditional head of a Chinese criminal cult operating in British ruled Hong Kong. But Geoffrey Toone (Captain Sale)is the brave and undaunted hero around whom the action revolves. The film assumes that the audience will empathise with Sale and admire his great bravery. It's evident that quite a few reviewers were indifferent even finding it funny. I once saw director Anthony Bushell waiting for a bus in Oxford and had a short conversation about his career as I then knew it (Col Breen in Quatermass and the Pit). In WW2 he'd been a tank commander I read later