Kung Fu : the complete first season [videorecording (DVD)] / [presented by] Warner Bros. Television ; producers, Jerry Thorpe, Herman Miller ; teleplay/writers, Ed Spielman & Howard Friedlander ... [and others] ; directors, Jerry Thorpe, Alex Beaton ... [and others].

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FilmPublisher number: 24250 | Warner Home VideoPublisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2004], c1972Edition: WidescreenDescription: 3 videodiscs (approximately 840 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

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video

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videodisc

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Unrated
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ISBN:

9780790776187
0790776189

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Title on container: Kung fu. The complete first season

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DDC classification:

791.45/75 22

Production credits:

Directors of photography, Richard L. Rawlings, Chuck Arnold, Fred J. Koenekamp ; art director, Eugene Lourie ; editors, John C. Horger, Carroll Sax ; music composer, Jim Helms ; wardrobe, Ray Philps ; set decorator, Ralph Hurst.

Cast: David Carradine, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn.Summary: Kwai Chang Caine is a Shoalin Monk who is on the run after he killed the Chinese Emporer's nephew. The nephew had killed Caine's teacher in cold blood with a gun like a coward. Caine flees to America both to escape retaliation and to search for his brother in order to settle down in this new land. However, he can not help but to continually run into trouble from gun fighters and others as they oppress the innocent, while bounty hunters pursue the price on his head. Against this, he has his Kung-fu martial arts skill which proves to be devastatingly effective in this gun-dominated land.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
DVD	Idaho Springs Public Library	DVDFIC	DVD FIC KUN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	30404100156361

Contains the 90 minute pilot episode and all 15 episodes of the first season.

Special features: two new original documentaries: "From Grasshopper to Caine: creating Kung Fu" and "The tao of Kwai Chang Caine: production and beyond."

Directors of photography, Richard L. Rawlings, Chuck Arnold, Fred J. Koenekamp ; art director, Eugene Lourie ; editors, John C. Horger, Carroll Sax ; music composer, Jim Helms ; wardrobe, Ray Philps ; set decorator, Ralph Hurst.

David Carradine, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn.

Kwai Chang Caine is a Shoalin Monk who is on the run after he killed the Chinese Emporer's nephew. The nephew had killed Caine's teacher in cold blood with a gun like a coward. Caine flees to America both to escape retaliation and to search for his brother in order to settle down in this new land. However, he can not help but to continually run into trouble from gun fighters and others as they oppress the innocent, while bounty hunters pursue the price on his head. Against this, he has his Kung-fu martial arts skill which proves to be devastatingly effective in this gun-dominated land.