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I wasn't expecting much from DUEL FOR GOLD when it started but this is a film that gets better and better as it goes on. It starts off with stock swordplay and an elaborate heist to steal a gold shipment, but what follows afterwards is where this gets really exciting. It's also an extraordinarily bloody production, with limbs being lopped and all kinds of impalings taking place. Not a huge cast here, but Shaw fans will spot Lo Lieh and Ivy Ling Po in decent roles. Very fine for a second-tier production.