History Film / TheManFromHongKong

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Wilton is watching kung fu sparring when, dissatisfied, he orders four of the students to attack him at once. He defeats all of them handily. This is probably because he's easily at least a head taller than them too, though. George Lazenby has a black belt in Shotokan-Ryu Karate.

* CoolGuns: Wilton has a Sterling submachine gun (possibly an ActorAllusion to Lazenby's Bond using one in the climax of ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''?). It only succeeds in shooting his furniture though.

* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics / SeparatedByACommonLanguage: For some reason, everyone from Hong Kong is speaking perfectly fluent Mandarin Chinese, when Cantonese is spoken much more frequently there. The odds of a Mei Ling, a Singaporean (who would probably know Hokkien and Mandarin), being able to understand Sing-Ling would have been pretty low had he been talking in Cantonese. Supposedly this was to accommodate the infamously egotistical Taiwanese lead Jimmy Wang-Yu (Mandarin is the dominant language of Taiwan), in spite of the fact that Wang-Yu spoke perfectly fine Cantonese from having lived in Hong Kong for much of his career.

* CoitusEnsues: Sing-Ling is recovering at Angelica's house, when she springs this line on him:
--> '''Angelica''': Do you think you're fit enough to make love to me?

* JurisdictionFriction: Sergeant Morrie, the junior partner of Inspector Bob (who also falls under this despite being [[TheCommissionerGordon much less jerkish]]), doesn't want a Hong Kong inspector stealing their thunder, so he's initially as unhelpful as possible to [[CowboyCop Sing-Ling]]. This stops when Sing-Ling calls them out on this behavior after their failed attempt to find BigBad Wilton.

* SissyVillain: Willard is rather effeminate. Somewhat doubles as a NonActionBigBad and FatBastard, even though he's [[AffablyEvil generally]] [[[[PunchClockVillain polite]] to the main characters.

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Two Aussie cops arrest a Chinese drug mule --> A Hong Kong-Chinese cop taking down Australia's biggest Crime Lord and his syndicate.

* JurisdictionFriction: Sergeant Morrie, the junior partner of Inspector Bob (who also falls under this despite being [[TheCommissionerGordon much less jerkish]]), doesn't want a Hong Kong inspector stealing their thunder, so he's initially as unhelpful as possible to [[CowboyCop Sing-Ling]]. This stops when Sing-Ling calls them out on this behaviour after a failed attempt to find BigBad Wilton.

'''Morrie:''' Oh, shut up, Bob! Hey, enough's enough! Extradite Win Chan: that's what you came here to do, [[OutOfTheFryingPan but everywhere you go,]] [[JerkassHasAPoint you just commit mayhem, man!]] Look, I'll tell you what I'll do; I'll give you my list of contacts, I'll give you every name I painstakingly bloody gathered over the past two years, and you can do the lot of them. This is Australia, mate - *not* "55 Days at Peking"\\

* LeeroyJenkins: Sing-Ling apparently doesn't give a crap about actual police procedure given his tendency to force his way into Wilton's property left and right, outright ''beating up a guard'' in front of his colleague and Wilton's NumberTwo to get into a room.

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Arrest Chinese drug mule --> Taking down the biggest Crime Lord and his many syndicates.

* NumberTwo: Willard, Wilton's secretary. Hell of a lot nicer than the boss, though.

* SameLanguageDub: An uncredited Roy Chiao dubbed all of Jimmy Wang Yu's English dialogue, since he didn't speak the language and had to learn his dialogue phonetically.

* SissyVillain: Willard is rather effeminate. Somewhat doubles as a NonActionBigBad and FatBastard, even though he's [[PunchClockVillain generally polite]] to the [[AffablyEvil main characters]].

* JurisdictionFriction: [[JerkJustification Sergeant]] [[ByTheBookCop Morrie]], the junior partner of Inspector Bob (who also falls under this despite being [[TheCommissionerGordon much less jerkish]]), doesn't want a Hong Kong inspector stealing their thunder, so he's initially as unhelpful as possible to [[CowboyCop Sing-Ling]]. This stops when Sing-Ling calls them out on this behaviour after a failed attempt to find BigBad Wilton.

'''Morrie:''' Oh, shut up, Bob! Hey, enough's enough! Extradite Win Chan: that's what you came here to do, [[OutOfTheFryingPan but everywhere you go,]] [[JerkassHasAPoint you just commit mayhem, man!]] Look, I'll tell you what I'll do; I'll give you my list of contacts, I'll give you every name I painstakingly bloody gathered over the past two years, and you can do the lot of them. This is Australia, mate - *not* "55 Days at Peking"!

The titular man is Inspector Fan Sing-Ling ([[InsistentTerminology Special Branch]]), played by Creator/JimmyWangYu, sent to Sydney after a prominent hitman and runner from Hong Kong, Win Chan, is arrested at Ayers Rock following a drug deal gone bad. Further investigation reveals the man behind it all - a certain Jack Wilton (Creator/GeorgeLazenby), undisputed crime lord of the entire city. The local police are unwilling to help Sing-Ling due to JurisdictionFriction, leading him to go after Wilton himself, leading to plenty of kung fu fights and vehicle chases. It doesn't go as planned, but he recovers at a vet's daughter's house and launches one final, successful, assault on Jack Wilton's penthouse.

* JurisdictionFriction: Bob and Morrie, the Sydney cops, don't want a Hong Kong inspector stealing their thunder, so they're initially as unhelpful as possible to Sing-Ling.