Vier Fäuste wie ein Donnerschlag

It starts with "Good morning, lazy bones, time to practice kung fu". The student wants to learn "retractable pole" from the master. Four guys appear and want to take the retractable pole and they kidnap the master. Overall this movie is amazing. I am a hard core Shaw Brothers fan and know the life stories of all the big stars. HKMDB lists about 60 actors in the cast of this movie. None of these actors are big stars, as compared to Ti Lung, David Chiang or Chen Kuan-Tai, yet most of them have appeared 20-100 movies, whereas some of them in nearly 200 movies.. The action scenes from all of these actors are as good as The Venoms and that is my ultimate compliment. Shaw Studios truly had an embarrassment of riches at the time. Though kung fu movies were made by the hundreds in 1980 everyone knows that in 1984 the plug was pulled as the golden age of martial arts movie ended. How many of the cast of this movie continued to find work? I estimate about half of them. I rate this as one of the best martial arts movies of the year of its release (1979 or 1980?) I recommend it for all fans of the genre.