Hello everyone.

I wanted to make my debut on the forum with a completely unknown film. I found it on VHS, in a shop near my house along with many other films from Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. But I was surprised to find absolutely no information on the web, other than different second-hand copies of the film on VHS in BETA for sale in Spain.

The copy I shared on YouTube probably comes from an altered and reduced montage made in the USA or England, I'm not 100% sure. The Spanish dubbing must also have been based on the English dubbing, hence all the names of the characters have "American" names.

We have a title, in English and the copyright text (1984), probably from the American/English version.
In addition to all the names of the artistic and technical team in the opening credits that are clearly badly translated and/or modified.

At first I could only recognise the actors Ma Sha and Sun Lan from seeing them in other films. According to the film's cover, the protagonist was Chung Wah, who after an exhaustive search on the Internet, I discovered was one of Tsung Hua's various pseudonyms.

Now, I don't know anything else.

I'll take advantage and transcribe all the information from the opening credits and the copy of the film from YouTube.

"CHALLENGE THE CABALLER"

Starring
TATTOOER MA (Ma Sha)
CHUNG WAH (Tsung Hua)
JEFFREY MAN
PAULA WANG
MILE PANG

co-starring
SHEILA LEE
NANCY MIN
WONG HAP
YEUNG WAN

with
TIN CHING
WU YAO CHUN
NAN YUN
CHIN LI FENG
CHIAO YANG

supervisor - JOSEPH LAI
assistant supervisor - STEPHEN SO
producers - NG LUNG CHING / LIM CHUNG LI
production designers - LU TAI SHAN / LO WEI

production manager - WU YAO CHUN
director of photography - TSUI TUNG YING
lighting - WANG CHI CHENG
continuity - TSUI MAN FONG
editor - LEUNG WING CHAN
titling - CHUNG CHUEN

effects - ROMAN TSANG
music - LAWERENCE CHAN
costume - RAVE YEUNG
make-up - MAN KAO
sets & props - LEE PAO LIN

english version - VAUGHAN SAVIDGE
stunt co-ordinator - HARLEY CHOW
arts director - VONVEY LIM
publicity - YUNG SAI TSOI
assistant director - BERNARD KWAN

martial arts director - TSAI SAN LIN
screenplay and director - HERMAN TAO

released & distributed thru
JOSEPH LAI'S
IFD FILMS & ARTS LTD.

© MCMLXXXIV by IFD FILMS & ARTS LTD
All Rights Reserved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEzMsWIQ6tE
(there's a comment on this video with direct access to all the characters with their english names)

Hi and welcome.

Very interesting find. I have no clue either what the original movie is. I spotted Wang Hsieh, Ma Chang, Tin Ching, Lan Yun.

Found it.

I will add this to the database in coming days.

《天龍大遊俠》Tien Long Great Cabalier (1981)

https://collections.nmth.gov.tw/Collect ... .0542.0005

Added:

https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml? ... ay_set=eng

Thank you very very much for the work!

Hi Bonnascope86, thanks for the addition and welcome.

Nice job Chen Hung Lieh, you're always a shark when it comes to hunting down these Taiwanese films

Cheers

Now the fun part. Matching IFD's English names to C hinese.

JEFFREY MAN is evidently Man Lee Pang, not on DB.

MILE PANG - anyone's guess - duplication of J Man ?

SHEILA LEE - by billing and pic, assumed 李倩 Li Chin

STSH wrote:Now the fun part. Matching IFD's English names to C hinese.

JEFFREY MAN is evidently Man Lee Pang, not on DB.
(...)
SHEILA LEE - by billing and pic, assumed 李倩 Li Chin

I agree.

STSH wrote:MILE PANG - anyone's guess - duplication of J Man ?

This name is a mystery for me.



NANCY MIN = Probably Nancy Wen, I opened a topic about her in the ID forum.

MILE PANG might be Mi Le Pang i.e. a slightly wrong duplicate of J Man.