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      Golden Needles

      PG 1974 1h 33m Action List
      Reviews 88% 50+ Ratings Audience Score An American (Elizabeth Ashley) in Hong Kong hires another (Joe Don Baker) to steal an Oriental statue able to grant virility. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Golden Needles begins with an elderly asian man being treated to various needles that literaly rise both him — and his member — back from the dead, at which point his grinning harem guides him out of the room just in time for a group of flamethrower-spraying masked troopers to kill every single person with fire. That's how you start a movie. As for the actual film, well, various groups are fighting amongst themselves to gain possession of a very special statue that has golden needles within it. If they inserted in the right areas on a man, he will gain super sexual skills. Or die, if things are done wrong. Director Robert Clouse made Enter the Dragon and this finds him teaming up again with Jim Kelly, along with 70s sex symbol — I mean, I guess — Joe Don Baker. God bless American-International Pictures for making this movie and getting the cast they did, which includes Elizabeth Ashley (Windows) as Baker's love interest and one of the people who wants the statue, Burgess Meredith as the nude man painting bad guy and Ann Sothern as a brothel owner. You have to love a movie that has the credit "Jim Kelly's Fight Sequence Choreographed By Himself" and then realize that that fight is filled with nude men trying to take a shower and their rear ends being used for comedy. This movie is just the way I like them: filled with Joe Don Baker love scenes, karate and a PG rating for a film that starts with fire murders in a massage parlor. Kino Lorber has a new blu ray release of this movie that has a brand new 2K master, along with radio and TV ads, a trailer and new commentary by Howard S. Berger and Chris Poggiali. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member What a great movie! My favourite movie ever. Love this movie Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member My favourite movie. Love this movie Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie are so amazing and I will definitely watch again this movie. I really like this movie Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Best movie I have ever seen. Definitely recommended everyone watch this movie Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Love this movie and everything really perfect and unique Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Dick Lochte Los Angeles Free Press For an evening of nonthink, you could do worse. Dec 12, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis An American (Elizabeth Ashley) in Hong Kong hires another (Joe Don Baker) to steal an Oriental statue able to grant virility.
      Director
      Robert Clouse
      Screenwriter
      S. Lee Pogostin, Sylvia Schneble
      Production Co
      American International Pictures (AIP)
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Action
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 17, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 33m