History Trivia / EnterTheDragon

* ThrowItIn: In the scene where O'Hara (Robert Wall) is beaten by Lee, Lee delivers a flying kick to O'Hara. Wall and Lee had decided that Lee should deliver a real flying kick to add authenticity to the scene, as Wall knew how to take the hit. They had not planned for wall to go flying back into the extras, knocking them all over and actually breaking one's arm.

** Kien Shih (Mr. Han) spoke no English, so his voice was dubbed by veteran Chinese-American actor Keye Luke (of "Series/KungFu", "Franchise/StarTrek", "Gremlins", and "CharlieChan" fame).

** Kien Shih (Mr. Han) spoke no English, so his voice was dubbed by veteran Chinese-American actor Keye Luke (of "KungFu", "Franchise/StarTrek", "Gremlins", and "CharlieChan" fame).

* The line "We have been waiting for you" is familiar to fans of the original VideoGame/MortalKombat arcade game.

** Kien Shih (Mr. Han) spoke no English, so his voice was dubbed by veteran Chinese-American actor Keye Luke (of "KungFu", "StarTrek", "Gremlins", and "CharlieChan" fame).

* RetroactiveRecognition: Future martial arts stars Creator/JackieChan and Creator/SammoHung have small parts. Chan appears three times in the film. He is one of Su Lin's attackers (she knees him in the groin), and twice later, towards the end of the film in the big cave fight scene. Lee grabs his hair for a while before breaking his neck; he is also one of the stuntmen that Lee hits when he wields two sticks (according to Chan himself). Hung is Lee's sparring partner during the fight before the opening credits.

** Kien Shih (Han) spoke no English, so his voice was dubbed by Chinese-American actor Keye Luke.

** In an inversion, actor Yang Zse took the stage name of Bolo Yeung to cash in on his sudden exposure in this film as the villainous Bolo.

* ExecutiveMeddling:
** In the original script, [[spoiler: Roper dies and Williams survives.]] This was reversed by John Saxon's agent to land him a bigger part; it was ''not'' an example of racist executives.
** Lee, playing a secret agent, wanted to use a gun in at least one scene. See WhyDontYouJustShootHim on the main page.

* Main/LoopingLines: The entire movie was filmed without sound, and so virtually all the actors had to loop their dialogue after filming was complete, with a couple of exceptions:

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The leisure suits, turtle necks, the funky music, Williams' afro and [[JiveTurkey manner of speech]] along with mentioning that the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar was only a few years ago, all point to this movie being in TheSeventies. Also, this movie is mostly responsible for kick-starting the kung-fu craze in the US during this time.

* HeyItsThatGuy -
** One of the thugs that assaults Roper on the golf course is Pat E. Johnson, a student of Chuck Norris best known as the referee from ''TheKarateKid''.
** Jackie Chan is a Mook who gets his neck snapped by Bruce Lee. Considering his age at the time and the fact that he's an extra, it is difficult to tell. It's easier to spot once you know when it occurs (it happens as Lee infiltrates the lab, and is the only NeckSnap to occur during that scene)
** Tony Liu, who played Hsiao Chiun, the boss' son in ''Film/TheBigBoss'', and had roles in the other two Lee Hong Kong films, plays a combatant who at first gives Roper a run for his money.
** [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Lao Che]] is Lee's master at the Shaolin Temple.
** The BigBad from ''{{Film/Bloodsport}}'' practically plays the same character but as TheDragon. This one is easy to notice since he apparently didn't age between 1973 and 1988.
** Sammo Hung is Lee's sparring partner in the opening scene.
** [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 Roper would help kill a child murderer that would come back from the dead and get revenge by terrorizing the dreams of his daughter.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy - One of the thugs that assaults Roper on the golf course is Pat E. Johnson, a student of Chuck Norris best known as the referee from ''TheKarateKid''.
** And Jackie Chan is a Mook who gets his neck snapped by Bruce Lee. Considering his age at the time and the fact that he's an extra, it is difficult to tell.
*** It's easier to spot once you know when it occurs (it happens as Lee infiltrates the lab, and is the only NeckSnap to occur during that scene)

** When the extended Cantonese/Mandarin versions were released for the first time in English in 1998, some extra dubbing had to be done, because no English dialogue existed at that time for those scenes. One of the scenes involved Roy Chiao (Shaolin Abbott) and Bruce Lee. Chiao was still alive (he died shortly thereafter), and was able to dub himself, but Lee's voice was supplied by Bruce Lee biographer John Little. Luckily, Lee's real voice was left alone for the scenes that originally used it.

* SameLanguageDub/LoopingLines: The entire movie was filmed without sound, and so virtually all the actors had to loop their dialogue after filming was complete, with a couple of exceptions:

** When the extended Cantonese/Mandrin versions were released for the first time in English, some extra dubbing had to be done, because no English dialogue existed at that time for those scenes. One of the scenes involved Roy Chiao (Shaolin Abbott) and Bruce Lee. Chiao was still alive (he died shortly thereafter), and was able to dub himself, but Lee's voice was supplied by Bruce Lee biographer John Little. Luckily, Lee's real voice was left alone for the scenes that originally used it.

** [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 Roper would help kill a child murderer that would come back from the dead and get revenge by terrorizing the dreams of his daughter.]]

** [[IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Lao Che]] is Lee's master at the Shaolin Temple.

** [[NightmareOnElmStreet Roper would help kill a child murderer that would come back from the dead and get revenge by terrorizing the dreams of his daughter.]]

** Sammo Hung is Lee's sparring partner in the opening scene.

** The BigBad from ''{{Bloodsport}}'' practically plays the same character but as TheDragon. This one is easy to notice since he apparently didn't age between 1973 and 1988.

* FridgeLogic: Exactly how are a couple of cages full of drunken bums who "no longer know who or where they are" able to beat up a courtyard full of martial artists? And why do they look so much younger while doing so than they did before?

** And Jackie Chan is a Mook who gets his neck snapped by Bruce Lee. Sammo Hung also plays a random mook. Considering their ages at the time and the fact that they're extras, it is difficult to tell.

** The BigBad from ''{{Bloodsport}}'' practically plays the same character but as TheDragon. This one is easy to notice since he apparently didn't age between 1973 and 1988.

** The BigBad from ''{{Bloodsport}}'' practically plays the same character but as TheDragon.

** And Jackie Chan is a Mook who gets his neck snapped by Bruce Lee.
** [[IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Lao Che]] is Lee's master at the Shaolin Temple.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Lao Che]] is Lee's master at the Shaolin Temple.