In The Line of Duty 1 - 4 :

 Disc 1 - In the Line of Duty: Royal Warriors (1986);
Disc 2 - In the Line of Duty 2: Yes, Madam! (1985);
Disc 3 - In the Line of Duty 3 (1988)
Disc 4 - In the Line of Duty 4 (1989)

US 88 Films 4 disc 2023 Blu-ray collection - Region A

The Blu-ray Box comes with a Booklet and a Poster

Finally restored Blu-ray editions of this legendary 80's film series that introduced
the great Hong Kong Girls With Guns genre and with tough female cops and lots
and lots of martial arts fighting. Films from the glorious Golden Era of HK filmmaking.

Above: Book with text and pictures

This film series was a Hit in Hong Kong and besides presenting the new film genre -
"Female Fighters Girls with Guns" it also were the film debut of The Queen of Martial
Arts - Legend Cynthia Rothrock, the action film debut of Malaysian ballet dancer and
beauty queen - Michelle Yeoh, and the action film debut of Taiwanese actress Cynthia
Khan. Also, a young Donnie Yen can be seen doing his stuff in no. 4 film, Tsui Hark
doing comedy stuff in no. 2, Michael Wong being annoying in no. 1 and 4. This nice
bluray Box edition has a lot of extras as interviews and audio commentaries


 


Disc 2. In the Line of Duty 2: Yes, Madam! (Huang jia shi jie, 1985)
Direction: Corey Yuen Kwai

This is the Stuff that Dreams are made of ! Michelle Yeoh in her first action
movie and Cynthia, The Goddess of Martial arts, in her film debut.
The film that caused a sensation in Hong Kong and kick-started the Female
Fighters Girls with Guns action genre (we've had women fighting before as
legendary Angela Mao but now guns were added to the brew). An action comedy
classic from future international action maestro Corey Yuen and with the agile
Malaysian ex-ballet dancer and beauty queen Michelle Yeoh showing she could
do the Martial Arts too, and with The Queen of Martial Arts, the then in her late
twenties US female world champion Cynthia Rothrock.

Cynthia just explodes onto the screen as the ultra-tough Interpol cop Carrie
Morris in the legendary airport scene and she will make a deadly duo together
with Michelle's also tough crime cop, Ng "Big Sis" Lok-Sai.
In the intro Michelle stops (= kills) a gang of bankrobbers, and just as in Royal
Warriors Big Sis gets a lot of flowers from her police colleagues, being the
pride of the Hong Kong Police force.

Cynthia's role Carrie Morris gets to be nick-named "The Nasty Foreign Chick" by
her Hong Kong police colleagues, or "Vicious White Hag" (depends on which
edition and dub you're watching). So, why is she there, in HK?
Michelle is about to meet her friend, the British Interpol agent Mr. Norman at a
hotel, but he has already been killed by killer Ah Wei (Dick Wei, the taiwanese
martial arts master that had to play baddies in almost every film he made).
He's chasing a microfilm that Norman had, and that carried a lot of devastating
proofs of his boss, Tin Wai-Keung's (James Tien) criminal activities.
But petty thieves Saridon/Alvedon (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Sham) already
accidently have stolen it.

Above: Reversible sleeve

A warning though as this film has a lot of often silly 1980's HK comedy in it,
a lot of it, BUT the action scenes well makes up for the comedy suffering, and
the epic final fight at boss Tin's mansion plus Cynthia's beating of Eddie Maher
at the airport are fantastic (Maher, a gweilo born in Macau and playing bad
guys in Hong Kong movies like this).
The burlesque antics of Alvedon, Strepsil and Panadol (Tsui Hark) are a bit of
annoying, admittedly.
The duo of Lok-Sai and Carrie are chasing the microfilm also and resigns,
turning into loose cannons to better handle Mr. Tin Wai-Keung and everything
ends in in a big showdown at Tin's mansion.

I LOVE YOU MICHELLE AND CYNTHIA, and the cantonese dubbing of Cynthia
is energetic and adorable as she spouts out cantonese her lines like a machine-gun,
and when she finally gets hold of a weapon to fight with .... aaah, so beautiful.
Cynthia, today in 2023, looks better and healthier than ever (and do visit her
website) and Michelle has refined her acting and become a great actress, who
won an Oscar for Best Actress in "Everything Everywhere All at Once".

The film is presented in 1.85:1 widescreen and with cantonese original theatrical
mix audio mono, or cantonese home video mix mono audio, or a new english dub 5.1,
and with english subtitles to be turned on and off from the remote.

Region A release. Extras:
An audio commentary by Frank Djeng (HK version)
A Team Player: Cynthia Rothrock on Yes, Madam! (18 minutes),
Airport scene commentary with Cynthia Rothrock and Frank Djeng
Interview with Mang Hoi (14 minutes in cantonese with english subtitles, co-action
director and stunt coordinator but here also playing the role of Alvedon)
Old Archive interview with Michelle Yeoh (15 minutes, how beautiful she was)
Archive Battling Babes featurette (10 minutes, old documentary with Yukari
Oshima, Moon Lee, Kathy Long, Cynthia Rothrock et al.),
Hong Kong trailer

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The 2010-2011 Fortune Star remastered DVD edition of Yes, Madam!
widescreen 1.85:1, cantonese audio DTS, or DD 5.1 or original cantonese
audio 2.0 with english subtitles (or mandarin 5.1)
Extra: original movie trailer, new edited movie trailer, movie stills photo
album, photo slideshow

Early Hong Kong Universe DVD release in widescreen letterbox in cantonese
audio 5.1 with english subtitles
Extras a trailer, stars file info in english, trailers for Royal Warriors and
Magnificent Warriors

 
 
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