The big demands of Kung-Fu movies in 1973 allowed many stuntmen to play major roles, among them a not-yet renamed Jackie Chan, still Cheng Long, who was the star in this trash directed by Shaw Bros' character actor Chu Mu. As result the movie flopped and Jackie left Hong Kong to joins her family in Australia, where he found work as edil painter under the name of Paul Chan. in 1975 his future manager Willie Chan did a phone call to him asking to comeback for Lo Wei's New Fist of Fury. That movie didn't work too but Jackie was there to stay and the rest is history. After he became Jackie Chan the Superstar, sleazy producer Dick Randall (Bruce strikes back, 1981), bought the rights of this Master with cracked fingers, and a new director re-edited the film erasing the original final duel between Jackie and Chan Hung Lieh, and adding as a substitute a final fight with a Jackie's stunt double with a masked face and long hairs, then they sold the fake "Jackie Chan movie". Nonetheless this trashy operation has some interest as archive and thanks the presence of the late vet Hon Kwok Choi. The new film was released under various international titles.
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