A 2’9” footnote in cinematic history is investigated to surprisingly rewarding ends in “The Search for Weng Weng.” Andrew Leavold’s documentary pokes at the puzzle of a long-neglected novelty Filipino ...

All lifelong obsessions have to start somewhere. Mine? Seeing a two-foot nine James Bond use a three-foot villain named Mr Giant as a punching bag. The film was “For Y'ur Height Only,” and the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. To make an independent film, you need an obsession or a dream. Andrew Leavold, the director of the new Australian documentary The Search ...

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In 2010, Mark Hartley followed up his tribute to Australia’s trashy film past Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation with Machete Maidens Unleashed, a look at Filipino ...

When Australian film buff and filmmaker Andrew Leavold first watched the 1981 Filipino action flick and James Bond spoof, “For Y’ur Height Only,” on a fuzzy VHS tape 20 years ago, he had no idea that ...

Weng Weng, or Ernesto dela Cruz, is the smallest actor to play a lead role in local movies. Standing two feet-nine inches, he became popular in his midget spy films For Y'ur Height Only and The ...

Today’s informative and mind-bending video is a tribute to the world’s shortest leading man, 2′ 9″ action-movie legend Weng Weng. If you don’t know about this Filipino legend, no worries: Until a ...

The world’s shortest leading man at 2’9”, actor Ernesto de la Cruz is better known as “Weng Weng,” the star of ’80s James Bond-esque low-budget flicks that made him a star in the Philippines and a ...

How obsessed can you be in something? No one in the world film industry is as obsessed as this Australian filmmaker in searching for Weng-Weng, Philippine's action star of the 80's. Australian ...

A 2’9” footnote in cinematic history is investigated to surprisingly rewarding ends in “The Search for Weng Weng.” Andrew Leavold’s documentary pokes at the puzzle of a long-neglected novelty Filipino ...