FIVE (DEADLY) VENOMS-(WU DU)-Shaw Brothers-1978- A dying Kung-Fu teacher of “The Poison Clan” instructs his last, young student to seek out a lost treasure and the clan’s five students all with different reptile names (Centipede, Snake, Scorpion, Lizard and Toad). Three of them are corrupt villains. One is a kind of crooked police officer who reforms and the last one’s identity isn’t revealed till the end.
This is a classic in the typical Shaw Brothers Hong Kong based martial arts genre. It’s got action, style and funny dubbing but when one character declares: “Poison clan rocks the world”, I suspect some of the dubbing has been updated. The five principal actors (Sheng Chiang, Philip Kwok, Feng Lu, Chien Sun, Meng Lo) made many other movies together including RETURN OF THE FIVE DEADLY VENOMS (AKA: MORTAL COMBAT) that I actually like better!
Writer/ director Cheh Chang (who died in June of 2002) made both and dozens others and is quite a legend in the Hong Kong film industry!
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