Cub Tiger From Kwang Tung | |
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Directed by | Chu Mu |
Produced by | Lee Long Koon |
Written by | Lau Suen |
Starring |
Jackie Chan Chan Hung Lit Tien Feng Shu Pei-Pei |
Music by | Frankie Chan |
Cinematography | Ng Fat Sam Wong Kwok Nam Cheung Chi Keung |
Edited by | Hamilton Yu |
Production
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Soon Lee Films Co.
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Distributed by | Showbox Home Entertainment (UK) |
Release date
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1973 (Hong Kong) 2007 (DVD) |
Running time
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85 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Mandarin |
Cub Tiger From Kwang Tung (simplified Chinese: 广东小老虎; traditional Chinese: 廣東小老虎; pinyin: Guǎngdōng xiǎo lǎohǔ) is a 1973 Hong Kong martial arts action film directed by Chu Mu and starring Jackie Chan. Chan was 21 when the film was made in 1971, and it is considered to be his first starring role.
Cub Tiger From Kwang Tung was filmed in Hong Kong in 1971, but only saw a limited cinema release two years later. The small independent release was shelved after its brief run and never received an international release. In the late 1979, in the wake of Chan's success in Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master (both 1978), the film re-emerged at Hong Kong cinemas, in a poorly re-edited version with some newer footage of Dean Shek and Yuen Siu Tien spliced in, along with a rather obvious Jackie Chan double.
The amalgamated footage was sold to US film producer Dick Randall, who dubbed and repackaged it, and gave it an alternative title, Master with Cracked Fingers. The rights were subsequently sold to 21st Century Distribution who gave this version of the film a brief run in US cinemas in 1981, under the title Snake Fist Fighter.
Since Chan became more popular in the West, particularly after the US release of Rumble in the Bronx (1996), the repackaged film has seen numerous VHS and DVD releases from a wide variety of film distributors in the US and UK.