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Enter the Dragon (《龍爭虎鬥》) aka. The Deadly Three, originally titled Blood and Steel is a 1973 Warner Brothers martial arts film starring martial artist Bruce Lee, John Saxon and Jim Kelly. It is the last completed film Bruce Lee appeared in before his death. He died the month before it was released.

It was the first Kung Fu film to have been made by a Hollywood studio. It has one of the most influential martial arts scenes ever made -- the Nunchaku scene. The film is largely set in Hong Kong (see Hong Kong in films).

Although they had acted in films and Peking opera decades before, the Seven Little Fortunes, including Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, were stuntmen for the film. This was arguably instrumental in Jackie Chan's and Sammo Hung's further association with Golden Harvest studios, which later launched their career.

The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original drafts. Bruce Lee was ultimately successful in using the film as a vehicle for expressing what he saw as the beauty of his culture, rather than just another action movie.

The Warner Brothers Special Edition video includes footage from the only live interview of Bruce Lee, as well as a few minutes of movie footage, philosophical in tone, cut from the original theatrical release.

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