Master with Cracked Fingers
Master With Cracked Fingers | |
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Siu Tien Yuen Dean Shek | |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Cantonese |
Box office | 303,609 tickets (Europe) |
Master with Cracked Fingers (
Synopsis
The film has a similar theme to Drunken Master (1978). The dynamic and undisciplined Jackie (Jackie Chan) undergoes the tutelage of a nomadic master who has a rigorous training style focusing upon the hardening of the fist.
Jackie has been intrigued by
Cast
Original footage
Cast | Role |
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Jackie Chan | Lung/Jackie (as Chan Yuan Lung / Cheng Lung) |
Chan Hung Lit |
Chow Bin |
Tien Feng | Lung's father |
Hon Kwok Choi | Pickpocket (Little Frog) |
Yuen Biao | Extra |
New footage
Cast | Role |
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Yuen Siu Tien |
Old Master (as Hsao Ten Juan) |
Dean Shek | Landlord (as Shih Tien) |
Kwan Ying Moon | Big Boss (as Yung Man Kuen) |
Production
The film was concocted using footage from other films, primarily from a little-seen independent 1973 film entitled
Release
Dick Randall took the amalgamated footage and employed actors to dub it into English, titling it Master with Cracked Fingers. Randall later sold the rights to 21st Century Distribution, who gave the film a limited release in American cinemas in 1981 under the alternative title Snake Fist Fighter.[2]
As Chan became more popular in the West, particularly after the US release of Rumble in the Bronx (1996), the rights to release the film on VHS were passed or shared between a number of different film distributors.
VHS
In the US, it was released as Master with Cracked Fingers by
DVD
All US DVD releases to date have had the title Master with Cracked Fingers. These began with a release from Woodhaven Entertainment in 2000. Others include
Further companies also held the rights long enough to produce limited releases of the film on VHS and DVD and, as with those noted above, all were the English-dubbed 80 minute assembled version of the film.
Little Tiger of Canton
The original film, Little Tiger of Canton was finally given a DVD release in the west in 2007, under the title The Cub Tiger from Kwang Tung. It was released in the UK (region 2) on Showbox Home Entertainment's Rarescope label. This 85 minute film is in its un-tampered form, contains the original language and English subtitles. Due to the poor quality of the print, some of the subtitles are chopped from the foot of the screen, so the DVD contains an additional set of subtitles which appear whenever the originals are cropped or missing.
Box office
The film received 1981 theatrical releases in France and Germany, selling 236,677 in France[3] and 66,932 tickets in Germany,[4][5] for a combined 303,609 ticket sales in Europe.
See also
- Jackie Chan filmography
- List of Hong Kong films
- List of martial arts films
References
- ^ "HKMDB listing". The Cub Tiger from Kwangtung (1973). Retrieved 26 January 2009.
- ^ "Hong Kong Digital". Master with Cracked Fingers. Retrieved 5 February 2009.
- ^ Soyer, Renaud (4 February 2014). "Jackie Chan Box Office". Box Office Story. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- ^ "Starpower JACKIE CHAN - Die erfolgreichsten Filme & Filmographie". Inside Kino (in German). Retrieved 19 June 2020.
- ^ "Guang Dong Xiao Lao Hu (Master with Cracked Fingers) (1981)". JP's Box Office (in French). Retrieved 28 November 2018.
External links
- Master with Cracked Fingers at IMDb
- Master with Cracked Fingers at Hong Kong Cinemagic