Master with Cracked Fingers

Master with Cracked Fingers Chinese pinyin dio shu gui zho , also released as Snake Fist Fighter, is a 1979 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Mu Chu and starring Jackie Chan. It is often cited as being produced in 1971, 1973, 1974 or 1981. The original footage was filmed in 1971 and released in 1973 as Little Tiger of Canton. The reedited version entitled Master with Cracked Fingers was not actually released until 1979.

Jackie has been intrigued by kung fu since he was a boy, but he cannot afford to pay for lessons. He later meets an old beggar, The Man Who Isnt There, who offers to teach him the secrets of fighting. After years of training under his sifu, his skills advance, but his father forbids him to practice. After a series of fights with a local gang of extortionists, and progressively more severe punishments from his father, he fends off the gang once more. In retribution, the gang burn down his house, killing Jackies father. To avenge his fathers death, Jackie agrees to a blindfolded fight against the gang leader, Kwan Yungmoon.The film was concocted using footage from other films, primarily from a littleseen independent 1973 film entitled Little Tiger of Canton aka The Cub Tiger From Kwang Tung which featured a teenage Chan in one of his earliest roles. After Chan had become famous through films like Snake in the Eagles Shadow and Drunken Master in the late 1970s, the footage was reedited. Additional material from the Drunken Master era and new footage of Dean Shek and Yuen Siu Tien in another appearance of his beggar character, was tacked on. A rather obvious Jackie Chan double was also hired and fought blindfolded in an attempt to hide the doubling from the viewers.citation needed ........

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