35mm

Project A

A' gai Wak
Jackie Chan
Part of

The Jackie Chan Experience

June 23 - 27, 2013

The movie that transformed Chan from a martial arts star into a director of transcendent physical comedy, Project A is spiced with outrageous stunts, including a jaw-dropping bicycle chase and a 50-foot fall from a clock tower inspired by Safety Last!

DIRECTOR
Jackie Chan
YEAR
1983
COUNTRY
Hong Kong
RUNTIME
101 minutes
LANGUAGE
Cantonese with English Subtitles
FORMAT
35mm
ORIGINAL TITLE
A' gai Wak
START DATE
June 25, 2013

A team-up with his Chinese opera school brothers Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, this cops-versus-pirates actioner was the movie that transformed Chan from a martial arts star into a director of transcendent physical comedy. One of the first action movies to be set in colonial Hong Kong, Project A is the first of Chan's films to be spiced with outrageous stunts, including a jaw-dropping bicycle chase and a 50-foot fall from a clock tower (inspired by Harold Lloyd’s hour-hand dangle in Safety Last!) that was so terrifying it took Chan three days to work up the courage to attempt it.

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