A full ten years before John Woo's gangster hit A Better Tomorrow, Shaw Studio released this sizzling thriller of family skeletons and blood relations in the Chinese mob. Liu Yung, co-star in every one of Bruce Lee's completed films, here takes center stage as a good guy who's loyal to bad friends, which starts his descent into the literal and figurative underworld. He struggles to survive a gang war until the final, explosive climax. (IVL)