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The Fight Stuff: 19 Great Martial Arts Flicks

ENTER THE DRAGON (1973)
Before Bruce Lee hit the screen in the early '70s, America at large had never been exposed to kung fu — and definitely not to Lee's unique form of it, jeet kune do (the way of the intercepting fist). He was impossibly fast and incredibly precise — even if Enter the Dragon was a little hokey, plot-wise (the now standard ''massive martial arts tournament on private island'' gambit), Lee held the screen with a power not seen since.