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‘Super Spies and Secret Lies’: Three Undercover Classics from Shaw Brothers (1966–69) • Limited Edition Blu-rays [Eureka Classics]— fun and fights featuring spies and supervillains

The three action-adventure films brought together in this new Eureka Classics Box Set are pure entertainment, capturing the pop culture zeitgeist of the 1960s…

The three action-adventure films brought together in this new Eureka Classics Box Set are pure entertainment, capturing the pop culture zeitgeist of the 1960s through the idiosyncratic lens of Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers studios. The action can swing from physical comedy to chaotic combat, from nightclubs to underground bases, from inept cops to criminal masterminds. They’re stylish, silly, sexy, some might say sexist, matinee-style movies and very easy to enjoy. They’re also just as easy to pull apart but any criticisms could just as readily be levelled at the early James Bond movies that they clearly pastiche. In Hong Kong, the genre became…