Circle of Iron AKA The Silent Flute Special Edition DVD Giveaway

Built around a script written by Bruce Lee, James Coburn and Stirling Silliphant years after Lee's death, Circle of Iron has acheived truly iconic status. With David Carradine stepping into a quartet of roles (!) that Lee had intended for himself the picture is a described as a metaphysical martial arts picture, an epic adventure set in a legendary world designed to be as much about Lee's personal philosophy as it is about the many martial arts sequences. It's a vanity project shot years after the death of the vain party, basically, and so it includes pretty much all of the rampant self indulgence you'd expect only without the undergirding seriousness it would have no doubt carried had Lee been alive and willing to make it - his vanity having reportedly reached high enough levels that he passed up the opportunity to make it after he had attained success in Asia, claiming the US producers could no longer afford him.

It's both goofy and very serious about it's subject, very much a product of the late seventies with all of the camp value you'd expect from a fantasy oriented project of the time, and it's just been given one damn fine two disc special edition re-issue which we are giving away to one of you lot. The picture has been HD remastered and looks fantastic, there's a new 6.1 DTS-ES remixed version of the audio to augment the original mono mix, the included commentary from director Richard Moore is detailed and insightful, and the second disc includes more than an hour and a half of brand new extras created just for this release including lengthy interviews with David Carradine and original screenwriter Stirling Silliphant.

Want it? You've got until May 29th, just drop me a line and tell me one other occassion that Carradine played a role originally intended for Lee.