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4. Bruce Lee - Game Of Death

Unfortunately not all untimely cinematic send-offs can be quite as classy and graceful as Paul Walker's, and Bruce Lee's Game of Death is more a testament to just how snidely an actor's legacy can be exploited.

Lee died suddenly of cerebral edema in 1973 with the martial arts film incomplete, after which Enter the Dragon director Robert Clouse was hired to finish the project.

Though over 100 minutes of footage for the film was shot in 1972, Clouse opted to use only around 11 minutes of footage featuring Lee, due to the martial arts genre becoming over-saturated with plots similar to that featured in the original material.

But keeping Lee's protagonist Billy Lo in the final film was no easy feat, requiring Clouse to get creative by combining the aforementioned footage of Lee with numerous (unconvincing) body doubles and even editing in clips from prior Lee movies.

There are two widely-criticised moments from the film deemed in especially poor taste - a howlingly awful scene where a cardboard cutout of Lee's face is glued to a mirror (pictured above), and the inclusion of footage from Lee's actual funeral.

Though the original fight footage featuring Lee is wonderful, this ultimately isn't more than a morbid curio misguidedly mounted as a tribute to the late martial artist. They probably should've just left it alone.