Jack Palance

The late 70's. Drugs. Terrible rock music. Jack Palance. Andy Warhol. Even more terrible disco music. A nerd getting doused in baby powder by a semi-nude maid. I am now older than my parents, having watched these interminable scenes.

There's a tiny island off the coast of Hong Kong where a bunch of poor people live, and one day a transport boat washes up on their shores, chock full of nitroglycerin. (Somehow the volatile nitro survives a shipwreck, yet later on in the movie people just look at it and it blows up.) The islanders are thrilled; now they can become black market chemical smugglers and reap millions in profits!