The Mighty Peking Man poster

Movie · 1977

The Mighty Peking Man

Released 11 August 1977 More from 1977 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster and discovers it's been raising a scantily-clad woman, Samantha, since she survived a plane crash years before that killed her parents. In the idyllic jungle, Johnny and Samantha fall in love. Then Johnny asks her to convince "Utam" to go to Hong Kong. Lu Tien, an unscrupulous promoter, takes over: Utam is in chains for freak show exhibitions. When Lu Tien assaults Samantha, Utam's protective instincts take over: havoc in Hong Kong.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Mama Hung
as Spectator at Pier
68
Norman Tsui Siu-Keung
as Dr. Ah Long
26
Danny Lee Sau-Yin
as Johnny Chen Zheng Feng
25
Yuen Cheung-Yan
as Bomb Unit Soldier / The Peking Man
20
Huang Pei-Chih
as Bomb Unit Soldier
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
48years between the oldest and youngest billed
68Mama Hung — oldest on the call sheet
20Yuen Cheung-Yan — youngest billed
35average age of the credited cast
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