it came from the trailer park!!!

i think this flick is jackie chan's 1st american feature.  it is the first pic i'd seen him in.  to say that i was obsessed with this movie is a vast understatement.  i must've dragged my brothers & friends to the esquire theater on the k st mall [now an imax movie house], right across the mall from that great scumporium the star theater which featured badly dubbed kung fu flicks from hong kong [oh, i went to school at the star theater!], about a dozen times during its run.  i loved the martial arts & was studying shotokan karate.  & i love exploitation/horror/kung fu movies so what is not to be obsessed by but the very charismatic jackie chan & his balletic skills at fighting.  i even had a poster of chan to decorate my room.  40 years on & this movie still rocks.  chan has made better, more adept & accomplished films, but this one, the big brawl [1980] (later renamed battle creek brawl) remains a favorite among my favorites.