Police Story

Police Story (警察故事 Ging chaat goo si) is a 1985 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Jackie Chan, who also played the lead role.

It is the first of the Police Story series featuring Chan as a Hong Kong police detective named "Kevin" Chan Ka-Kui.

Dubbing History
The theatrical cut of Police Story was originally dubbed in Hong Kong, written by Barry Haigh. Compared to the other versions, this dub is the most faithful to the original Cantonese dialogue. For many years, this dub was only officially released on a Dutch VHS by the distributor Bestsellers; it was first made widely available as an "alternative" audio option for Eureka Entertainment's 2018 Blu-ray release for the UK market, and was later included on Criterion's 2019 American Blu-ray.

Utilizing the same dub, the film was later cut from 99 minutes to 87 minutes for export. It was first shown in the English-speaking world on September 26, 1987 at the New York Film Festival, under the title of Jackie Chan's Police Force. In addition to shortening the film, the original music score by Michael Lai was replaced by a score composed by Kevin Bassinson.

A re-dubbed version of the export cut was produced in 1998 by New Line Cinema for home video release and TV broadcasts. New Line's dub sticks very close to the original dubbing script. Kevin Bassinson's score was replaced with a new score by J. Peter Robinson, mostly consisting of recycled cues from the composer's scores for Rumble in the Bronx, Police Story 4: First Strike, and Mr. Nice Guy, as well as a remixed sound design. New Line's version was released on VHS and LaserDisc in Summer, 1998. New Line also licensed this version for broadcast on the television network UPN. This dub has since disappeared from circulation after the creation of the new international version.

A new English dub of the 99 minute Hong Kong theatrical version was produced in or before 2000 for use on home video releases and as the basis for new dubs. Likely dubbed by Omni Productions, the dub is somewhat looser with the dub dialogue than the previous dubs. This dub first appeared on the 2001 Hong Kong Legends UK DVD release.

A fourth English dub was dubbed around 2004, seemingly also done by Omni Productions. Much of the cast from the previous dub is present in this dub, but in different roles. The dub utilizes much of the same script as the previous, but with some of the peculiarities in the previous script corrected, and also features a remixed 5.1 surround soundtrack. It was originally released on DVD in the United States by Fortune Star in 2006. Most official dubbed presentations of the film since (aside from the aforementioned Criterion Blu-ray) have used this version, the most recent being Eureka Entertainment's Blu-ray.