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* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Creator/JimmyWangYu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies (or pretended to) before filming a love scene, refused to learn his lines in English, and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Trenchard-Smith. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
** The animosity supposedly came from Wang Yu's celebrity being practically nonexistent outside of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the actor's apparent racism towards his Australian counterparts.
** The animosity supposedly came from Wang Yu's celebrity being practically nonexistent outside of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the actor's apparent racism towards his Australian counterparts.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Creator/JimmyWangYu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies (or pretended to) before filming a love scene, refused to learn his lines in English, and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Trenchard-Smith. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
**him. The animosity supposedly came from Wang Yu's celebrity being practically nonexistent outside of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the actor's apparent racism towards his Australian counterparts.
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--> '''Trenchard-Smith''': ''"There was a great clash of personalities, coupled with the inevitable mutual distrust that occurs in a co-production where both sides think the other is trying to rip them off."''
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--> '''Trenchard-Smith''': ''"There There was a great clash of personalities, coupled with the inevitable mutual distrust that occurs in a co-production where both sides think the other is trying to rip them off."''
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Creator/JimmyWangYu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies (or pretended to) before filming a love scene and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Trenchard-Smith. He also forced his Cantonese-speaking castmates to recite their dialogue in Mandarin (despite being perfectly fluent in the language), and refused to learn English. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Creator/JimmyWangYu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies (or pretended to) before filming a love scene scene, refused to learn his lines in English, and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Trenchard-Smith. He also forced his Cantonese-speaking castmates to recite their dialogue in Mandarin (despite being perfectly fluent in the language), and refused to learn English. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
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* FakeNationality: Taiwanese actor Creator/JimmyWangYu as the titular Man from Hong Kong.
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* OnSetInjury:
** Creator/JimmyWangYu was injured during filming when he crashed his hang glider into rocks in Sydney Harbor. He fell 100 feet from the disabled glider onto a sand dune. The accident left him knocked unconscious and he was absent from filming for two days.
** Creator/GeorgeLazenby did the stunt where his arm catches fire and goes on fighting himself - only for it to go wrong when he was unable to get his burning jacket off. The take of him struggling is kept in the movie. He received minor burns to his arm from doing this stunt.
** A sound recordist was injured during production filming when he broke his ankle whilst a stuntman also broke his foot.
** Two stunt men were injured in a car crash whilst filming the car chase sequence and they were both hospitalized.
** Brian Trenchard-Smith had an accident during filming when he was hit in the eye with chemical spray.
** Creator/JimmyWangYu was injured during filming when he crashed his hang glider into rocks in Sydney Harbor. He fell 100 feet from the disabled glider onto a sand dune. The accident left him knocked unconscious and he was absent from filming for two days.
** Creator/GeorgeLazenby did the stunt where his arm catches fire and goes on fighting himself - only for it to go wrong when he was unable to get his burning jacket off. The take of him struggling is kept in the movie. He received minor burns to his arm from doing this stunt.
** A sound recordist was injured during production filming when he broke his ankle whilst a stuntman also broke his foot.
** Two stunt men were injured in a car crash whilst filming the car chase sequence and they were both hospitalized.
** Brian Trenchard-Smith had an accident during filming when he was hit in the eye with chemical spray.
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* FakeNationality: Taiwanese actor Jimmy Wang Yu as the titular Man from Hong Kong.
* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Jimmy Wang Yu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies (or pretended to) before filming a love scene and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Trenchard-Smith. He also forced his Cantonese-speaking castmates to recite their dialogue in Mandarin (despite being perfectly fluent in the language), and refused to learn English. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Jimmy Wang Yu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies (or pretended to) before filming a love scene and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Trenchard-Smith. He also forced his Cantonese-speaking castmates to recite their dialogue in Mandarin (despite being perfectly fluent in the language), and refused to learn English. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
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* FakeNationality: Taiwanese actor Jimmy Wang Yu Creator/JimmyWangYu as the titular Man from Hong Kong.
* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset dislikedJimmy Wang Yu Creator/JimmyWangYu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies (or pretended to) before filming a love scene and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Trenchard-Smith. He also forced his Cantonese-speaking castmates to recite their dialogue in Mandarin (despite being perfectly fluent in the language), and refused to learn English. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked
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* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/GeorgeLazenby admitted in the ''Not Quite Hollywood'' documentary that he appeared in the film for this reason, as his prospects following ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' were limited.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Jimmy Wang Yu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies before filming a love scene and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Trenchard-Smith. He also forced his Cantonese-speaking castmates to recite their dialogue in Mandarin (despite being perfectly fluent in the langauge), and refused to learn English. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Jimmy Wang Yu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies (or pretended to) before filming a love scene and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Trenchard-Smith. He also forced his Cantonese-speaking castmates to recite their dialogue in Mandarin (despite being perfectly fluent in the langauge), language), and refused to learn English. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
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** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' has a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] user named Rikiel, whose Stand is named Sky High and can control aerial cryptids known as "rods". Curiously, ''[=JoJo=] creator Creator/HirohikoAraki is a fan of [[BMovie B-Movies]], and while ''The Man from Hong Kong'' is ''far'' from being poorly-made, it ''is'' [[MainstreamObscurity relatively unknown in the eyes of the general public]].
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** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' has a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] user named Rikiel, whose Stand is named Sky High and can control aerial cryptids known as "rods". Curiously, ''[=JoJo=] ''[=JoJo=]'' creator Creator/HirohikoAraki is a fan of [[BMovie B-Movies]], and while ''The Man from Hong Kong'' is ''far'' from being poorly-made, it ''is'' [[MainstreamObscurity relatively unknown in the eyes of the general public]].
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* ReferencedBy: The film's theme song, "Sky High", has been referenced a few times in media.
** The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E2BubblestandRippedPants "Ripped Pants"]] references this when [=SpongeBob=] says in his own song, "But I went and blew it, all sky high."
** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' has a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] user named Rikiel, whose Stand is named Sky High and can control aerial cryptids known as "rods". Curiously, ''[=JoJo=] creator Creator/HirohikoAraki is a fan of [[BMovie B-Movies]], and while ''The Man from Hong Kong'' is ''far'' from being poorly-made, it ''is'' [[MainstreamObscurity relatively unknown in the eyes of the general public]].
** The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E2BubblestandRippedPants "Ripped Pants"]] references this when [=SpongeBob=] says in his own song, "But I went and blew it, all sky high."
** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' has a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] user named Rikiel, whose Stand is named Sky High and can control aerial cryptids known as "rods". Curiously, ''[=JoJo=] creator Creator/HirohikoAraki is a fan of [[BMovie B-Movies]], and while ''The Man from Hong Kong'' is ''far'' from being poorly-made, it ''is'' [[MainstreamObscurity relatively unknown in the eyes of the general public]].
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The film was released in America as ''The Dragon Flies''.
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** Jimmy Wang Yu really beat up Brian Trenchard-Smith in the latter's cameo.
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** Jimmy Wang Yu really beat up The fight scene atop of the elevator between Creator/JimmyWangYu and Brian Trenchard-Smith in allegedly involved real fisticuffs, the latter's cameo.punches thrown at the latter allegedly being real punches. Reportedly, the two had a strained relationship during the shoot. As Wang Yu is credited as a co-director in some prints, as such, this movie represents an instance where a film's rival two directors have literary fought it out on the set.
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* SameLanguageDub: An uncredited Roy Chiao dubbed all of Jimmy Wang Yu's English dialogue, since he didn't speak the language and had to learn his dialogue phonetically.
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* WagTheDirector: Jimmy Wang Yu had previously directed several films in Hong Kong and wanted to be top dog onset, clashing with Brian Trenchard-Smith.
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** Many of the cast and crew working at Ayers Rock (Uluru) in Central Australia suffered from heat exhaustion whilst working there.
** A country house set that had been especially constructed for filming was set fire by vandals during principal photography.
* WagTheDirector:Jimmy Wang Yu Creator/JimmyWangYu had previously directed several films in Hong Kong and wanted to be top dog onset, clashing with Brian Trenchard-Smith.
** A country house set that had been especially constructed for filming was set fire by vandals during principal photography.
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* WorkingTitle: ''Yellow Peril''.Peril''.
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* CreativeDifferences: Jimmy Wang Yu and Brian Trenchard-Smith fought each other for control of the film.
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* CreativeDifferences: Jimmy Wang Yu Creator/JimmyWangYu and Brian Trenchard-Smith fought each other for control of the film.
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* FakeNationality: Taiwanese actor Jimmy Wang Yu as the titular Man from Hong Kong.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Jimmy Wang Yu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies before filming a love scene and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Trenchard-Smith. It didn't help that he couldn't speak English and refused to learn the language. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Jimmy Wang Yu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies before filming a love scene and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Trenchard-Smith. It didn't help that he couldn't speak English He also forced his Cantonese-speaking castmates to recite their dialogue in Mandarin (despite being perfectly fluent in the langauge), and refused to learn the language.English. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Jimm Wang Yu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies before filming a love scene and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Brian Trenchard-Smith. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Jimm Jimmy Wang Yu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies before filming a love scene and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Brian Trenchard-Smith.Trenchard-Smith. It didn't help that he couldn't speak English and refused to learn the language. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
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* SameLanguageDub: An uncredited Roy Chiao dubbed all of Jimmy Wang Yu's English dialogue, since he didn't speak the language and had to learn his dialogue phonetically.
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** The animosity supposedly came from Wang Yu's celebrity being practically nonexistent outside of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the actor's apparent racism towards his Australian counterparts.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Pretty much everyone onset disliked Jimm Wang Yu for his prima donna attitude. He disliked his leading lady so much that he ate flies before filming a love scene and physically assaulted the director when he filmed his cameo appearance. It got to the point where Roger Ward offered to give him a beating on behalf of Brian Trenchard-Smith. On the documentary ''Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild and Untold Story of Ozploitation'', no-one involved with the production had anything nice to say about him.
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* WagTheDirector: Jimmy Wang Yu was disliked by pretty much everyone onset for his prima-donna attitude. He'd previously directed several films in Hong Kong and wanted to be top dog onset, clashing with Brian Trenchard-Smith. His behaviour was so bad, that Roger Ward offered to give him a good hiding.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was meant to star Creator/BruceLee
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was meant to star Creator/BruceLee
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* WagTheDirector: Jimmy Wang Yu was disliked by pretty much everyone onset for his prima-donna attitude. He'd had previously directed several films in Hong Kong and wanted to be top dog onset, clashing with Brian Trenchard-Smith. His behaviour was so bad, that Roger Ward offered to give him a good hiding.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was meant to star Creator/BruceLee.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was meant to star Creator/BruceLee.Creator/BruceLee
* WorkingTitle: ''Yellow Peril''.
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* CreativeDifferences / TroubledProduction:BreakawayPopHit: "Sky High" by Jigsaw went to No. #3 on the USA Billboard Hot 100 Chart, No. #9 on the UK Singles Chart and No. #2 on the New Zealand Charts. In 1976 in Japan peaked at No. #2 on the Oricon Singles Chart.
* CreativeDifferences: Jimmy Wang Yu and Brian Trenchard-Smith fought each other for control of the film.
* CreativeDifferences: Jimmy Wang Yu and Brian Trenchard-Smith fought each other for control of the film.
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* EnforcedMethodActing:
** Creator/GeorgeLazenby's arm really caught fire during the final fight scene.
** Jimmy Wang Yu really beat up Brian Trenchard-Smith in the latter's cameo.
* InternationalCoproduction: The production was co-produced between Hong Kong's Golden Harvest films and Australia's The Movie Company and Greater Union with some investment from the Australian Government's Australian Film Development Corporatio (AFDC).
* ProductionPosse: A number of the cast and crew who appeared in this movie had previously worked on the earlier Australian movie ''Film/{{Stone}}'' (1974). This included actors Hugh Keays-Byrne, Bill Hunter, Rebecca Gilling, Roger Ward, Ruth Erica, Rosalind Speirs and Deryck Barnes as well as a number of technical crew. Both films were produced by David Hannay.
** Creator/GeorgeLazenby's arm really caught fire during the final fight scene.
** Jimmy Wang Yu really beat up Brian Trenchard-Smith in the latter's cameo.
* InternationalCoproduction: The production was co-produced between Hong Kong's Golden Harvest films and Australia's The Movie Company and Greater Union with some investment from the Australian Government's Australian Film Development Corporatio (AFDC).
* ProductionPosse: A number of the cast and crew who appeared in this movie had previously worked on the earlier Australian movie ''Film/{{Stone}}'' (1974). This included actors Hugh Keays-Byrne, Bill Hunter, Rebecca Gilling, Roger Ward, Ruth Erica, Rosalind Speirs and Deryck Barnes as well as a number of technical crew. Both films were produced by David Hannay.
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* TroubledProduction: In addition to having a prima donna leading man, there were several stunt mishaps:
** Creator/GeorgeLazenby got his arm burned and Jimmy Wang Yu was rendered unconscious for two days when he crashed his hang glider.
** A sound recordist was injured during production filming when he broke his ankle whilst a stuntman also broke his foot.
** Two stunt men were injured in a car crash whilst filming the car chase sequence and they were both hospitalized.
** Brian Trenchard-Smith had an accident during filming when he was hit in the eye with chemical spray.
** During the car explosion featured during the opening sequence in Central Australia after the car rolls over had car-door fly off the vehicle, the projectile missed Trenchard-Smith and the camera unit by about a couple of feet.
* WagTheDirector: Jimmy Wang Yu was disliked by pretty much everyone onset for his prima-donna attitude. He'd previously directed several films in Hong Kong and wanted to be top dog onset, clashing with Brian Trenchard-Smith. His behaviour was so bad, that Roger Ward offered to give him a good hiding.
** Creator/GeorgeLazenby got his arm burned and Jimmy Wang Yu was rendered unconscious for two days when he crashed his hang glider.
** A sound recordist was injured during production filming when he broke his ankle whilst a stuntman also broke his foot.
** Two stunt men were injured in a car crash whilst filming the car chase sequence and they were both hospitalized.
** Brian Trenchard-Smith had an accident during filming when he was hit in the eye with chemical spray.
** During the car explosion featured during the opening sequence in Central Australia after the car rolls over had car-door fly off the vehicle, the projectile missed Trenchard-Smith and the camera unit by about a couple of feet.
* WagTheDirector: Jimmy Wang Yu was disliked by pretty much everyone onset for his prima-donna attitude. He'd previously directed several films in Hong Kong and wanted to be top dog onset, clashing with Brian Trenchard-Smith. His behaviour was so bad, that Roger Ward offered to give him a good hiding.
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* ShootTheMoney: All the hang-gliding scenes.
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--> '''Trenchard-Smith''': ''"There was a great clash of personalities, coupled with the inevitable mutual distrust that occurs in a co-production where both sides think the other is trying to rip them off."''
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was meant to star Creator/BruceLee.
--> '''Trenchard-Smith''': ''"There was a great clash of personalities, coupled with the inevitable mutual distrust that occurs in a co-production where both sides think the other is trying to rip them off."''
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was meant to star Creator/BruceLee.
