Although this title sounds like it might possibly be a porn flick this is actually an old school Shaw Brothers kung fu movie. Golden Swallow is the name of the main lady hero here but really the main guy is a dude who uses some silver swords so this movie could just as easily be called SILVER SWORDS but I guess they wanted to push the strong female-starring angle. The plot involves a love triangle story and various treacherous clans which is the standard way these things go. There's one heroic fellow here who wears so much make-up and has such crazy eyebrows that he looks like he has a puppet-head so that's a little disturbing. Surprisingly, for the year it was released, this contains some quite bloody scenes including lots of sword and knife damage and a couple of self-inflicted suicides, one of which is a young boy! Probably worth a look if you're a hardcore kung fu fan just for the amazing cinematography and blood-letting but the plot is possibly a little drawn out for the average attention-deficit-adled action fan. AKA THE GIRL WITH THE THUNDERBOLT KICK
Played on a strange genre-mixing double-bill with CAPTAIN KRONOS:
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