Big and Little Wong Tin Bar

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
Jyutping	daai6 siu2 wong4 tin1 baa3
Directed by	Lung To
Written by	Lee Yuen-man
Produced by	Leung King-hin
Starring	Jackie Chan; Sammo Hung; Li Li-Hua
Edited by	Fan Ka-ken
Production; companies	Great Win Film Co; Panasia Films
Distributed by	Gala Distribution; Fortune Star
Release date	5 December 1962;
Running time	106 minutes
Country	British Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese

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

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

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

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

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

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.

References

^ ^a ^b "The Seven little valiant fighters". Hong Kong Film Archive. Retrieved 31 August 2013.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "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.
^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Jackie Chan first movie - Big and Little Wong Tin Bar 大小黃天霸. YouTube.

External links

[Hong_Kong_Film_Archive_Entry-1] "The Seven little valiant fighters". Hong Kong Film Archive. Retrieved 31 August 2013.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[Big_and_Little_Wong_Tin_Bar_Hong_Kong_Film_Archive-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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