The Kid with the Golden Arm
(1979)
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Cast
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Chien Sun | ... |
Iron Feet Yang Hu Yun
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Meng Lo | ... |
Boss 'Golden Arms'
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Feng Lu | ... |
Silver Spear
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Sheng Chiang | ... |
Short Axe Fang Shih
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Helen Poon | ... |
Leng Feng
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Philip Kwok | ... |
Agent Hai Tao
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Pai Wei | ... |
Swordsman Li Chin-Ming
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Dick Wei | ... |
Sand Palm Fighter
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Lung Wei Wang | ... |
Iron Robe
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Hsiung Yang | ... |
Brass Head
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Shu Pei Sun | ... |
Yin Chu
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Tai-Ping Yu |
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Hsin Hsiang Sun |
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Jamie Luk | ... |
Chi Sha Fighter
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Hang-Sheng Wu |
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Plot Synopsis
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Director Chang Cheh reunites the Five Venoms in his second biggest cult hit in the West. It's Lo Meng's most memorable performances whose showdown with fellow Venom Kuo Chue is artistically violent while being graphically artsy.
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Country:
Hong KongLanguage:
MandarinRelease Date:
2 November 1979 (Hong Kong) See more »Also Known As:
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Golden Arm: I already have mine. That's my arms. Your sword's good, I'll admit. Still, if you should lose it... you're finished. But my arms, they always stay with me.
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When Iron Robe signals his distress flare (just before his fight with Hai Toh), fishing line can clearly be seen suspending the lit flare in mid-air. See more »Quotes
Swordsman Li Chin-Ming: [challenging Golden Arm] Get your weapon!Golden Arm: I already have mine. That's my arms. Your sword's good, I'll admit. Still, if you should lose it... you're finished. But my arms, they always stay with me.
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What makes this Venoms' film unique? The storyline is downright simple, with a little twist at the end and the locations are uniformly dull, where all take place in the Shaw Brothers studios.
So, the best thing about THE KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARM is the characters, the good and the bad, who have their own unique skills. Combined with Chang Cheh's deft direction and a talented group of kungfu actors, you get good entertainment, especially for the Venoms' fans.
The story involves a desperate delivery of caskets containing gold for the needy in famine-stricken villages through a place named the Death Valley. The place is so feared that the delivery, which has no other option but to pass it, has to be escorted by a group of skilled fighters.
The Deadly Valley, so it is named, is a no-man's land ruled by an infamous robber, highly skilled - the Golden Arm (Lo Meng) with his gang: the Silver Spear (Lu Feng), the Iron Robe (Wang Lung Wei), and the Brass Head (Yang Tsiung), who are all aiming at looting the gold delivery.
But, things do not come as easy as they think. The king's official has assigned Chief Security Yang (Sun Chien), together with a group of fighters, to prepare an unexpected welcome for the adversaries.
Again the fighters on Chief Yang's side, are as unique as the baddies: Constable Hai To, the drunkard (Kwo Chui), Swordsman Li, the arrogant (Wei Pai), Heroine Leng (dunno her name), Long Axe (played by a cameo; should have been played by Wang Li, though), and Short Axe (Chiang Sen).
There are one-to-one mortal combats that are, as usual, exciting to watch - the one between Silver Spear and Short Axe, another with the Iron Robe and Constable Hai To, then the climax between the Golden Arm and Constable Hai To.
A little twist at the end is the appearance of a mysterious character the Iron Feet, known to be one of the deadly duos of the Deadly Valley before the Golden Arm established his reign of terror. He, too, demands his share of the gold.
Who, then, will be the last man standing ?