Starring: Jackie Chan, Simon Yuen, Hwang Jang Lee. Directed by: Yuen Woo Ping
This has to be one of the best early movies in Jackie Chan's career. It is a change from most of the movies he did with Lo Wei and this movie marks the beginning of the collaborations he would do with Yuen Woo-ping that culminated in "Drunken Master."
In this movie, Jackie is a bumbling student at a kung-fu school who gets bullied and tortured everyday by the teachers and used as a human punching bag by the students. Behind the school he meets an old "beggar" (played by Yuen Woo-ping's real-life father Yuen Siu Tien, or Simon Yuen) and gives him some food and shelter for a night. Little does Jackie know that this old man is an expert in the Snake and Crane Fist Technique! Besides this, a rival master (played by "Thunderleg" Hwang Jang Lee) is searching for the old man so they can have a duel to the death.
Witnessing one of the bullying incidents inflicted upon Jackie by the school's teacher, the old man leaves a manual about the techniques for him and basic footstep outlines before he leaves. From here on out Jackie gradually learns the Snake and Crane Fist and will be a human punching bag no longer!
Jackie then decides to search for the old man, and gradually find out who he really is.
If you are a fan of old-school Jackie Chan, or Jackie Chan movies in general, be sure to check this movie out! You'll most likely want it for your collection!
Also known as: Se Ying Diu Sau (HK Cantonese), She Xing Diao Shou (Mandarin), or "Snake Form Trick Hand", "Snake and the Eagle's Shadow" (Philippines), Eagle's Shadow " (USA re-issue title), Bruce vs. Snake in Eagle's Shadow (unknown), "Snaky Monkey" (unknown)
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