Big and Little Wong Tin Bar

Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
Jackie Chan's and Sammo Hung's first acting roles were in the 1962 martial arts film Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, until 2016 thought to be a lost film (image shows the opening scene)
Traditional Chinese大小黄天霸
Simplified Chinese大小黄天霸
Jyutpingdaai6 siu2 wong4 tin1 baa3
Directed byLung To
Written byLee Yuen-man
Produced byLeung King-hin
StarringJackie Chan
Sammo Hung
Li Li-Hua
Edited byFan Ka-ken
Production
companies
Great Win Film Co
Panasia Films[1]
Distributed byGala Distribution
Fortune Star
Release date
  • 5 December 1962 (1962-12-05)[1]
Running time
106 minutes[2]
CountryBritish Hong Kong
LanguageCantonese

Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (Chinese: 大小黄天霸), also known as Seven Little Valiant Fighters (Chinese: 橫掃江南七霸天) and Two of a Kind, is a 1962 Hong Kong film. It is notable for being Jackie Chan's and Sammo Hung's film debut. Until 2016, the film was considered lost. The only footage that survived before that period were a 9-minute opening clip and a short 5-minute clip of dialogue.[citation needed] The film was rediscovered when a complete copy was released onto YouTube on 3 February 2016.[3]

Plot

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Old hero Wong Samtai, is hosting a banquet for warriors from the four seas. The invitation is received also by the head of the Black Wind fortress Kam Ching, who wants to marry his daughter Lotus to his son Wong Tinbar. But Tinbar does not want this wedding and sees his future with Cheung Kwailan. The afflicted Ching and his daughter steal the jade seal, which belongs to the King of Magical Power. Tinbar is accused of theft. He fails to find a seal and his father is imprisoned. Cheung Kwailan is trapped in the Black Wind Fortress during an overnight search along with Tinbar, but the sudden appearance of the Seven Little Rookies saves her from captivity. Thanks to this, her searches continue and lead to the Dragon Cave with a poisonous python, where the seal is located. Nevertheless, Tinbar is under arrest by the lord. Kwailan and the Seven Rascals force the culprits to surrender - this is part of the Tinbar rescue mission at the lord's residence to settle this problem once and for all.

Cast

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NOTE: Many actors who were featured in this film do not have the same names as they do today, this was due to them taking their master's name which is part of Chinese tradition while studying martial arts.

  • Yu Kai as Wong Tinbar
  • Yuen Lau (a.k.a. Jackie Chan) – Played a singing kid and fights a man.
  • Yuen Lung (a.k.a. Sammo Hung) – Played an unknown kid.
  • Yuen Wah
  • Ho Siu-hung – as Master Wong Sam-tai
  • Cheng Bik-ying – as Cheung Kwai-lan
  • Yam Yin – as Lotus
  • Lau Hark-suen – as Black Wind Fortress Kam Ching

Additional cast

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  • Yuen Fu (a.k.a. Lee Kuk-wah)
  • Yuen Ting (a.k.a. Ng Ming-choi)
  • Yuen Man (a.k.a. Mang Yuen-man)
  • Yuen Tai
  • Lam Yim
  • Mui Yan
  • Yam Tai-koon
  • Wah Wan-fung

Chronology of events

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Until 2009, the film was considered lost. After many decades in which this film was considered lost it was found in the Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA). To this day the film has only screened twice – on 14 and 22 November 2009 – at the Cinema of the HKFA.[citation needed]

A few days after the two screenings, in December 2009, two short clips (a 9-minute opening clip and a short 5-minute clip of dialogue) were uploaded to YouTube. On 3 February 2016 the full movie was uploaded to YouTube.[citation needed]

Until the screenings at the Cinema of the HKFA and the upload in 2016, there were 3 known scenes involving Jackie Chan and some kids only. He fights someone older and then sings. Some footage of this film is shown in Jackie Chan: My Story.[citation needed]

Filming Information

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Big and Little Wong Tin Bar was filmed in Hong Kong in the Cantonese language using Black-and-white 35 mm film with a Mono audio track.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "The Seven little valiant fighters". Hong Kong Film Archive. Retrieved 31 August 2013.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Seven Little Valiant Fighters （aka Two of a Kind）". Hong Kong Film Archive. Archived from the original on 17 March 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  3. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Jackie Chan first movie - Big and Little Wong Tin Bar 大小黃天霸. YouTube.
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