Alas, this is one of the worst movies I've ever endured watching, and the acting wasn't helped by atrociously poor dubbing.

The fight sequences were frequently slapstick in nature, and yet often failed to induce me to laugh, mainly because the gags weren't particularly original and would work better in a pure cartoon.

The premise of the thin plot is that a gang of Amazon warriors terrorizes a peaceful valley, coming into conflict with a masked warrior named Darma. Centuries ago, someone discovered a nearby cave's natural oil deposits, and exploiting the effects of fire from the burning fuel, passed himself off as an immortal overlord on the local villages, receiving "taxes" in return for his protection. Generation after generation of disciples were selected and trained to keep up the con game and thus Darma's "immortality," until the ambitious Amazons, greedy to learn the truth of the "secret flame," kill the latest Darma and force his young protege to seek help from 2 allies. They are Moog, a huge black guy, and Chang (played by Shaw Brother's Yue Hwa), who also want to learn the secret of immortality, albeit in a more honorable fashion.

This movie was supposed to showcase an early collaboration between Western and Eastern film studios in the aftermath of Bruce Lee's popularity, but Yue has little chance to show off the Chinese style swordplay in his best Shaw Brothers movies, and the overall budget of the film could not have been very high. Plenty of "fighting" involves Moog shoving people down with brute strength, or the new Darma ridiculously bouncing up and down (presumably using an off-camera trampoline) off walls and cliffs to evade the evil Amazons.

The Amazons themselves are mostly blonde and scantily clad women with a totally cheesy battle cry that was one of the few things that made me laugh. Alas, for the most part they are poor shots with bows and not very effective fighters. The climactic showdown takes place mostly in the dark, and with lame firebomb effects and wooden "flame-tanks" that unfortunately fail to impress me, because I've seen so much better elsewhere already.

I'm not sure what would have improved the movie...perhaps better choreographed fight scenes, or perhaps a lot more skin revealed amongst the nubile Amazons. If you like to collect vintage trash and amuse your friends on how ridiculous and dumb a flick can be, this might be for you, otherwise avoid like the plague.