Lo Leih's uncle apparently swindles a Chinese warlord and heads to California, where he's accidentally killed trying to stop Lee Van Cleef's after hours bank robbery of his safe. Leih saves Van Cleef from a hanging in order to help retrieve the stolen fortune, using parts of a treasure map tattooed on the backsides of several prostitutes!
One amusing scene has one of the tattooed girls, European sexpot Erika Blanc, revealed to be wearing a chastity belt put on by her puritanical husband, forcing Lee Van Cleef to pick her lock!
An international co-production between Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers, along with Spanish, Italian, and American producers, Blood Money is a sometimes funny, sometimes pretty silly, and all-around okay film, though not nearly as good as other east-meets-west flicks like The Fighting Fists Of Shanghai Joe, Red Sun, or the TV series "Kung Fu".
The films where the Shaw Brothers worked with studios in the west to introduce Kung Fu elements to different settings and genre's were always pretty neat, the most famous probably being The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires, made with Hammer Films.
One amusing scene has one of the tattooed girls, European sexpot Erika Blanc, revealed to be wearing a chastity belt put on by her puritanical husband, forcing Lee Van Cleef to pick her lock!
An international co-production between Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers, along with Spanish, Italian, and American producers, Blood Money is a sometimes funny, sometimes pretty silly, and all-around okay film, though not nearly as good as other east-meets-west flicks like The Fighting Fists Of Shanghai Joe, Red Sun, or the TV series "Kung Fu".
The films where the Shaw Brothers worked with studios in the west to introduce Kung Fu elements to different settings and genre's were always pretty neat, the most famous probably being The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires, made with Hammer Films.