It starts with a guy (Tung Li) on horseback stops at a tea house. His helpful waiter explains the movie story line to him. A fight erupts and our guy shows his considerable skills. Lung Fei, as the baron, then takes his men away. The waiter already explained that the baron runs the town but fears the abbot at the temple where the monks have been killed off suspiciously. At about the nine minute mark Chia Ling meets Tung Li as an old friend.
I have two copies of this movie. Both are digital files that can play on a HDTV. One is English dubbed but comes from India and looks like it was videotaped from a television broadcast. It is 4:3 screen size. The other copy is wide screen and also has the same English dubbing.
The movie has Shaw Brothers production values but not fight choreography. The fights all seemed to be missing something. A lack of focus can be expected at times in even the better of these movies. Here the lack was often simple coordination and timing. The fight scenes with the monks were so back I deducted a point from the rating. Chia and Dorian were as good as ever. That's with the exception of Chia fighting the monks. Tung Li had been making this genre of movies since the 1960s but his skills are no better than ten years earlier.
I rate it just average for the year and genre of martial arts movies of the golden age from 1967 to 1984.
I have two copies of this movie. Both are digital files that can play on a HDTV. One is English dubbed but comes from India and looks like it was videotaped from a television broadcast. It is 4:3 screen size. The other copy is wide screen and also has the same English dubbing.
The movie has Shaw Brothers production values but not fight choreography. The fights all seemed to be missing something. A lack of focus can be expected at times in even the better of these movies. Here the lack was often simple coordination and timing. The fight scenes with the monks were so back I deducted a point from the rating. Chia and Dorian were as good as ever. That's with the exception of Chia fighting the monks. Tung Li had been making this genre of movies since the 1960s but his skills are no better than ten years earlier.
I rate it just average for the year and genre of martial arts movies of the golden age from 1967 to 1984.
