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According to Jackie Chan's autobiography, of all the movies he's ever made, this is his favorite.
According to Jackie Chan's autobiography, this movie took nine months to shoot and ended up costing over nine million U.S. dollars, a staggering amount for a Hong Kong movie at the time. The film bombed at the box-office and the studio, Golden Harvest, was not happy. So in an attempt to recoup some box-office, Chan made the globe trotting adventure Armour of God 2: Operation Condor (1991).
A typhoon destroyed many of the sets of this movie. The crew had to rebuild to finish the production.
Jackie Chan's and Composer Siu-Tin Lai's last collaboration.
According to Producer Bey Logan's audio commentary on the Region 2 DVD released by Hong Kong Legends, Screenwriter Edward Tang introduced Jackie Chan to Frank Capra's movie Pocketful of Miracles (1961). After seeing it, Chan was influenced to produce a movie with a 1930s setting.
Jackie Chan sustained an injury, a deep cut over his left eye, while performing a stunt in which he flipped backwards onto a rickshaw.
