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Rating: 
Summary: Worth seeing!
Review: The large review above is very good and need not
really be elaborated upon. The female lead (and it breaks
my heart when I don't see her name get mentioned) is the irrisitable Polly Shang Kuan, who is just about the spunkiest and most lovable actress from the days of old-school. She can do a
lot with her roles, and always livens things up. I agree that
the romance factor was cute and well handled. Her boyfriend
is Yueh Hua, another Shaw Bros. veteran, best when a sword is in his hand. These two also got together for Green Dragon Inn, another great oldie!
Love you Polly!
Rating:
Summary: Worth seeing!
Review: The large review above is very good and need not
really be elaborated upon. The female lead (and it breaks
my heart when I don't see her name get mentioned) is the irrisitable Polly Shang Kuan, who is just about the spunkiest and most lovable actress from the days of old-school. She can do a
lot with her roles, and always livens things up. I agree that
the romance factor was cute and well handled. Her boyfriend
is Yueh Hua, another Shaw Bros. veteran, best when a sword is in his hand. These two also got together for Green Dragon Inn, another great oldie!
Love you Polly!
Rating: 
Summary: Fun Martial Arts Mystery...
Review: This is a pretty good kung fu mystery, centering around a mysterious killer clad in white who is terrorizing the countryside. Good guys eventually band together (after battling each other, because THEY all wear white at one time or another), and try to identify the murderer. The killer has amazing kung fu skill, and it takes all of the good guys to bring him down.One clever factor is that the bad guy wears a hat to hide his face, so that it is never to be seen (of course, we see it anyway quite clearly in at least one of the fights). I don't want to give anything away, but I will tell you that the make-up they used is pretty dumb. You'll see what I mean when the truth about the killer is revealed at the end, and they show how the killer could be in several places at once. The end of the movie gets kind of dopey, with a ridiculous trick to trap the killer using colored, magnetic statues to drain his life force energy (or something like that). Still, there is an interesting romance going on with two of the heroes. One of the main characters is a girl disguised as a man, in a secret identity just one step above Clark Kent donning glasses to hide the fact that he's Superman. Of course, this is a standard, almost classic, character in many kung fu films, and as usual, only the audience can tell she's a girl until the story closes with the truth being revealed. There are some good fights in this one. There's also a lot of fun banter between the good guys, who always seem ready to challenge each other to a fight as much as the bad guy. The ubiquitous Lo Leih pops up again, and offers perhaps the biggest surprise of all in the movie by playing a good guy instead of a villan! If you know anything about these movies, then you know that scores were made at a time, which explains why Lo's character is missing for most of the movie (off making another movie, no doubt, in the middle of making this one). It's fun, doesn't cost much, and there's a cool weapon at the end. Despite the dumb magnetic rock thing, I think you'll enjoy this kung fu caper.
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