Following on from the previous post, I wanted to discover why "Danny" is so frequently left off Jackie Chan filmographies so went around the various specialist kung-fu film outlets and kung-fu film memorabilia shops and any other place I could think of that are into that kind of stuff, trying to find out if someone knew.
The owner of "Rock Galleria" in Yau Tai Mall around the corner from us in Wan Chai did. He said that when "Danny" flopped so badly, Golden Harvest realised that no one would pay to see Jackie Chan in a movie with no kung-fu and, worse, where he loses, so they pulled the film, shot a great many new scenes with lots of kung-fu action, changed the storyline to make it that Danny is kidnapped by the triads and has to be rescued, which is something Jackie does and with lots of kung-fu action too, and then they re-released it under the name "Heart of Dragon" and it did very well indeed.
Of course, "Heart of Dragon" is not in the same level of powerful as "Danny" but who cares since, yayyy, Jackie kicks butt!
I was also told that if I have a copy of "Danny", the original and unacknowledged version, to treasure it because ... dah dah! ... it's worth a great deal of money! Go Keith, Go Keith, Go Keith!!!
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