6/10
No match for "Hundra", but not bad
8 November 2012
Warning: Spoilers
In 1983, director Matt Cimber and gorgeous star Laurene Landon made one of the better low-budget female-driven action flicks of the 1980s, "Hundra". The following year, the same team tried again to do much of the same, but lightning did not strike twice. "Yellow Hair" has an imaginative start (kids sitting down in a theater to watch the movie we're about to watch, hollering and commenting on the credits), a promising introduction for the title character (beating a male Indian with some of the wrestling moves Landon learned from "All The Marbles", including a fantastic dropkick!), a likable male sidekick for Yellow Hair, and some great stunts. But the film drags at times, with scenes going on longer than they should (a prime example is Kid shooting snakes for about 5 minutes), and the aforementioned fight scene with Yellow Hair is her ONLY fight scene in the entire movie, aside from a punch and a kick here and there. That's why "Hundra" was better - it gave Landon more opportunities to fight. **1/2 out of 4.
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