Are you sure it was in 1972 that you saw it and not in the Spring of 1973?
I think it just played solo at the movie houses in its intial release,
except they continously ran it right after the first showing over and over.
That was back when you could keep on sitting through it at the cinema just to watch it again for free, as many times as you wanted to until early morning anyway.
Those where during the years before the ushers then started clearing people out after each showing at the movie house
which began sometime in the late 1970's.
There were not too many other Kung Fu movies released soon after it,
so if you went to the Drive-In and saw it with 2 other movies,
it was with other Warner Bros. movies like High Plains Drifter,or Scorpio
or Hands of the Ripper.
Anyway I remember first seeing Five Fingers of Death as a double feature
with Sacred Knives of Vengeance which was released in late 1973.
After Enter the Dragon peaked at the boxoffice in the Summer of 1973,
it also was released in late 1974 nationwide with Five Fingers of Death as a double feature in late 1974.
Five Fingers of Death was the second movie shown
and if you didn't see it originally it suffered from viewing after watching
Bruce Lee in a movie of course.
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