While it had aired as two episode of TV two years prior, the 1981 cinema release of Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge was the best of an admittedly bad trio of Nicholas Hammond-fronted films.
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To his credit, Hammond was actually a pretty darn fine Peter Parker, but it's just that the series - and thus 'movies' - had so little in common with the Spider-Man comic books of the day.
Here, Spidey is involved in a tale that features the Chinese government, underhand deals and a kidnap plot. It's all a bit rough around the edges and cheesy as all hell, but still, this is likely the best movie outing for Hammond's Wall-crawler.