Details

Release year: 1980

Storyline

A young Asian-American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fighting competition.

Top credits

Directors

Robert Clouse

Writers

Cast

Jackie Chan — Jerry Kwan
Kristine DeBell — Nancy
José Ferrer — Dominici
Mako — Herbert

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Did you know

• The first time that the authentic voice of Jackie Chan was heard in a movie. All of Chan's prior Hong Kong movies had featured traditional dubbing of his voice for Cantonese and Mandarin releases. As a matter of fact, he wouldn't dub his own voice in a Hong Kong movie before Police Story 3: Supercop (1992).

• In his autobiography "I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action" (1998) there was one scene in the production in which director Robert Clouse was not interested in Jackie Chan's idea which was to flip out of the car. Clouse had wanted him to just walk from the car to his father's restaurant. Chan said: "No one will pay money to see Jackie Chan walk!". The reason he believes this movie failed was because he wasn't given a chance to choreograph the action scenes the way he wanted them.

• First Hollywood movie of Asian actor Jackie Chan. ''Jackie's departure from his comic/bumpkin characters was his American film debut, 'The Big Brawl' (1980)'' according to a 2001 interview with Jackie Chan by Craig Reid published at 'Bright Lights Film Journal'.