Question about the editor(s) on YOUNG MASTER

[Brian Thibodeau]

Happened across some old notes from this Jackie Chan film that listed Frank J. Urioste (TOMBSTONE, CLIFFHANGER, DIE HARD) as one of the editors.

I have to assume I must have been watching some sort of "international" edit of the film in order for such a name to have been in the opening credits no less. This WAS an Tai Seng VHS, after all!

The DB lists Peter Cheung Yiu-Chung as editor. So I'm wondering if the tape I watched so long ago, and which I no longer have, featured a different version of the film? Are more than one edit of YOUNG MASTER known to exist? I'm pretty sure the version I used to own had Jackie Chan singing the theme song in English, though the film itself was not the dubbed version. Go figure...

Any thoughts?

[MrBooth]

I first saw YOUNG MASTER on uk tv, and it was a much shorter edit than the HK cut (and dubbed into English)... couldn't understand why people rated the film until I saw the 'proper' cut/dub some years later

[Brian Thibodeau]

That must be the version I saw, but somebody somewhere must have edited back in the Chinese audio track to fit, perhaps so they could say it was presented in the original language....

Perhaps Urioste was so proud of his work that he was able to get credit for paring down the original?

[calros]

Urioste is an US film editor who re-edited a few Golden Harvest movies ("The Boys in Company C" for example) to be released in Western countries.

According to our rules, crew members of "western releases only" should not be added to our DB.