Swordsman At Large (C-Movie) (HK-Movie) (1971)

SWORDSMAN AT LARGE (1971) is an intriguing Shaw Bros. swordplay adventure that starts out as a typically convoluted array of various parties involved in a desperate search for a precious sword called the Deer Knife and assorted treacheries that arise. However, about half-way through, the narrative shifts to a deeply touching and affecting love story between a girl from the region’s richest family who’d been kidnapped by the bad guys and the hero who rescues her, a Robin Hood type who has a bad rep because of various impersonators committing heinous crimes in his name. The girl, identified only as Miss Shum, gradually comes to recognize the outlaw, known as Xiao the Rambler, as a good and noble man and falls in love with him and he with her. They even share a song together.