50 Years Ago: When Kung Fu Came to Times Square

50 years ago, on March 20, 1973, Warner Bros. held two free screenings of a new movie at the Loew’s State Theater on Broadway and 45th Street in Times Square. It was called FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH and was set to open officially the very next day, March 21. It promised action on a scale that exploitation fans had never quite witnessed before, being the very first of a new wave of English-dubbed kung fu films from Hong Kong to hit the U.S. These films would galvanize grindhouse and neighborhood theater audiences even more than the Italian westerns and Blaxploitation action thrillers tha

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