''Million Dollars Snatch'' (七百萬元大劫案, ''Qi bai wan yuan da jie an,'' lit. "Seven Million Dollar Robbery") also known as ''Kung Fu Sting'', is a 1976

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film directed by Ng See-yuen.

Plot

Chan Ah-sang, a career criminal, engineers a bank robbery to be carried out by a gang of seven recruited hoodlums, all led by Chan. The robbery goes off without a hitch, and Chan's gang make off with seven million dollars. A special police unit is then formed to investigate the case, with the chief inspector suspecting Chan and beginning to keep him under surveillance. In order to stay undetected, each member is specifically ordered to not spend their share of the one million

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from the heist for six months, as to not attract suspicion from the police, which proves to be too much of a temptation for the rest of the gang, causing the police to track them down, arrest all the criminals, and return the stolen money to the bank.

Cast

* Chang Kung as Inspector Lee * Lin Wen-Wei as Robber Chan Ah-sang * Hoh Gong-Lun as Robber Kwok Cheung * Lau Hok-Nin as Biker robber * John Cheung Ng-Long as Robber Tang Lik * Tam Wing-Git as Robber Lou Zai * Chan Hung-Gaai as Robber Yik Yat-Hoi * Addy Sung Gam-Loi as Robber Tai Sai-Ciu *

Lee Hoi-Sang Lee Hoi-sang (April 15, 1941 – September 9, 2024) was a Hong Kong martial arts film actor and martial artist, known for his roles in ''The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'' (as Abbot Li Hai Sheng) (1978), '' Shaolin Challenges Ninja'' (1978), ''The In ...

as Detective * Mak Wa-Mei as Chan's girlfriend * Na Na as Lou's girlfriend *

Fung Ging-Man Fung Ging-man (), (22 January 1912 – 9 November 1997) sometimes credited as Ging-man Fung and Fung King-Man, was a Cantonese Hong Kong actor, script supervisor, production manager and director. He acted in over 300 films, and he also played a ...

as Dai's neighbour * Lau Kwok-Shing as Robber Saa Daam-Seng * Wong Kwok-Leung as Luk Zai

Production and Release

''Million Dollars Snatch'' was loosely based on the real life robbery of HK$75 million from an armored car for the

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in 1975, roughly equivalent to USD $10,000,000 at the time. The film was produced by the Dak Lee Moving Picture Company, with Ng See-yuen acting as a director for hire shortly after the formation of his company,

Seasonal Film Corporation Seasonal Film Corporation () was an independent film company from Hong Kong, originally founded by the ex-assistant Shaw Brothers movie director Ng See-yuen in 1974. One of their first films was '' Call Me Dragon'' in 1974, starring Bruce Lian ...

in 1975. In Hong Kong, the film was a modest box office success, and was a major inspiration for other sensational crime films released by Hong Kong studios in the 1970s. It released theatrically in America under the title ''Kung Fu Sting''. The film has never been released on home video in America.

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