The Magnificent Butcher (1979) ½
cast: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Wai Pak, Fan Mei-shing, Chan Kei-kei, and Kwan Tak-hing

This early Yuen Woo-ping film focuses on Wong Fei-hung's most famous student Lam Sai "Butcher" Wing, mischievously portrayed by Sammo Hung a la "Drunken Master" with Jackie Chan (who played a young Wong Fei-hung as a mischievous adolescent).

"The Magnificent Butcher" is one of the better films from most of the cast and crew involved, but unfortunately features way too little of Kwan Tak-hing, who reprises his role of Wong Fei-hung once again after playing the legendary master in nearly 100 serials for 20 years beginning in the 1949. Though he was in his 70's at the time, Kwan shows that age has done anything but slowed him down as he performs like his young and vibrant co-stars.

Once again, Yuen Biao, despite his amazing talent as a martial artist and an acrobatic is given little screen time, despite being in a rather well staged martial arts picture with the talents of Yuen Woo-ping (whose father Yuen Siu-tin worked on several Wong Fei-hung films with Kwan) and Sammo Hung.

"The Magnificent Butcher" works great as a companion piece to "Drunken Master."