| Dreadnaught | |
| Director: | Yuen Woo-ping |
| Producer: | Raymond Chow |
| Screenplay: | Peace Group |
| Story: | Wong Jing |
| Starring: | Yuen Biao Bryan Leung Kwan Tak-hing |
| Music: | Frankie Chan |
| Cinematography: | Ma Koon-wah |
| Editing: | Peter Cheung |
| Studio: | Golden Harvest |
| Distributor: | Golden Harvest |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Country: | Hong Kong |
| Language: | Cantonese |
| Gross: | HK$5,618,598 |
Dreadnaught is a 1981 Hong Kong martial arts comedy horror film directed by Yuen Woo-ping, and produced by Raymond Chow.[1] The film stars Yuen Biao, Bryan Leung, and Kwan Tak-hing. The film was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 5 March 1981.
In the film, the fugitive criminal White Tiger systematically kills anyone who threatens or angers him. With the exception of the laundry man Mousy, who keeps evading his attacks. Eventually, Mousy uses his kung-fu skills to fight back and defeat White Tiger.
A short-tempered, violent criminal named White Tiger is on the run from the police and joins a theater troupe to hide out, killing anyone who angers him or who suspects his identity. One person he unsuccessfully tries to kill several times is a cowardly laundry man named Mousy, who manages to escape by fleeing.
In a scene early on in the film, Mousy is washing the laundry with his bossy sister. After complaining about the repetitiveness of laundry work, his sister scolds him and demands he wash the clothes in the "family way." This leads to a scene with Mousy flipping the clothes around with his hands and wringing them out with powerful squeezing from his index finger and middle finger.
When Mousy's close friend and elder brother figure, Leung Foon, is killed by White Tiger, Mousy overcomes his cowardliness enough to seek revenge.
The laundry abilities turn out to be related to kung-fu methods, as Mousy eventually uses the same laundry method to defeat White Tiger.