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Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (1979)

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge poster
Directed by
Don McDougall
Genre
action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
6
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 51 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Spider-Man travels to China to help a friend who has stolen a valuable artifact. He must battle a crime syndicate and clear his friend's name.

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What happens

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge is a 1981 American superhero film that had a theatrical release abroad, a composite of the 1979 two-parter episode "The Chinese Web" of the contemporary television series The Amazing Spider-Man, released on May 9, 1981. It was directed by Don McDougall, written by Lionel E. Siegel, and stars Nicholas Hammond as the titular character, Rosalind Chao, Robert F. Simon, Benson Fong, and Ellen Bry. It is the sequel to Spider-Man (1977) and Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978). This was the final Spider-Man film that was released theatrically outside of North America, as well as the final Spider-Man film overall, until Sony Pictures acquired the license in 1999 and released Spider-Man in 2002. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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