Snake in the Eagle's Shadow - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[oscar]

Producer Serafim Karalexis got the rights to distribute this movie in America in the '80s, retitled "The Eagle's Shadow". It had a new score made due to copyright issues with the original score.

[russell]

Several of the training scenes were duplicated in the Namco Playstation version of Tekken 3 (1997) for character Lei Wulong's ending movie. These duplicated scenes in CGI include the Egg Maze training and the Filled Waterbowl training.

[elmer]

First movie in which Siu-Tin Yuen appeared as a wandering eccentric Kung Fu Master. He reprised the same character type in different kung fu movies, one of which is Drunken Master (1978), which also features Chan as the leading character, Dean Shek as a bumbling assistant teacher, and Jang-Lee Hwang as the final opponent.

[steve]

Among the Assistant Martial Arts Choreographers were Corey Yuen and his two brothers, Cheung-Yan Yuen and Shun-Yee Yuen.

[alyssa]

Directorial debut of Woo-Ping Yuen.

[kenneth]

The combination of comedy, martial arts, stunts and acrobatics had been done before, in Chia-Liang Liu's The Spiritual Boxer (1975). However, the release of this movie heralded a new direction for Hong Kong action movies.

[frances]

Jackie Chan (Chien Fu) got his front tooth knocked out by the powerful kick of Jang-Lee Hwang (Lord Sheng Kuan). In the finale, the gap where Chan's tooth was is clearly seen.

[chad]

Sheng Fu was supposed to star as Chien Fu, but was refused by Run Run Shaw, head of the Shaw Brothers Studio. This led to Jackie Chan being cast in the role.

[ruby]

During the controversial cat-vs.-cobra fight scene, which was cut in some countries due to animal cruelty concerns, it can be clearly seen that a second cobra is off in the lower right-hand corner at times, though it was not used in the final footage.

[chris]

Like most movies released in Hong Kong during that time, its original soundtrack is dubbed in Mandarin, not Cantonese. The Cantonese soundtrack was dubbed several years later when Cantonese became the predominant language used in the Hong Kong movies in the 1980s.

[leo]

At around 1:16 ,in the cat fight with the cobra scene, as the cat emerges from behind the wooden ladder,a twine tethered to the cat is visible. As the cat tries to run away, the twine stretches taught. This might explain why the cat would stay and fight the cobra, rather than run away. This would not be the first time a tethered animal is forced to fight a cobra in Hong Kong kung fu movies, as a monkey is seen tethered in the animal fight scene in The 36th Chamber: The Final Encounter (1981), starring Chia-Hui Liu.

[carla]

The soundtrack uses/steals (uncredited) one of John Barry's songs from You Only Live Twice (1967) once, as well as the end of "The Last Battle" from John Williams' Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) soundtrack several times. The tense last several bars before the Death Star's destruction appears at least four times in the film.

[sara]

At around 1:22, while filming a sword fight, Jackie Chan's arm was accidentally slashed by a sword. He went on fighting, and the footage appears in the film.