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* ActionGirl: Yun Piao-piao, the girlfriend and fiancee of Xiang-ding, who leads the cavaliers into battle along his side and is capable of taking names as well. Unfortunately she's closer to a FauxcActionGirl; getting injured right ''before'' the final confrontation, she's left out of the final assault on Chao Hong's pagoda.
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[[caption-width-right:300:Have ''Kickass'' Martial Arts Skills, Will Take Tons and Tons of Names in Massive Action Scenes]]
''Have Sword, Will Travel'' is a 1969 Creator/ShawBrothers MartialArtsMovie directed by Chang Cheh, starring Chang's frequent collaborators and star players, Creator/TiLung and Creator/DavidChiang, with the Shaw Brothers' "Deadly Doll", Li Ching, in a key role as well.
Lung and Chiang, having appeared the same movies like ''[[Film/OneArmedSwordsman Return of the One-Armed Swordsman]]'' and ''Film/Vengeance1970'', but separately without each other onscreen, finally shows up together in this movie, the first of twenty-odd Shaw Brothers films with Lung and Chiang appearing - and kicking ass - side-by-side.
Xiang-ding (Ti Lung) and Yun Piao-piao (Li Ching) are sword-fighters, martial artists, mercenaries and a pair of lovers engaged to be married, but a week before they can tie the knot, they're given one last assignment: to escort a valuable cargo of gold through hostile territory in the Northern Fields, a territory owned by the powerful Flying Tigers gang of marauders. To make things complicated, the arrival of a new elite swordsman, Lu-yi (Chiang), serves as a potential romantic rival for Xiang-ding.
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!!Have Sword, Will Tropers:
* ActionGirl: Yun Piao-piao, the girlfriend and fiancee of Xiang-ding, who leads the cavaliers into battle along his side and is capable of taking names as well. Unfortunately she's closer to a FauxcActionGirl; getting injured right ''before'' the final confrontation, she's left out of the final assault on Chao Hong's pagoda.
* ArrowCatch: Dart Catch. During the restaurant scene, Xiang-ding decides to test Lu-yi by throwing a dart at him. Lu-yi catches said dart with his ''chopsticks''.
* BarbarianLonghair: Chao Hong's entire army of marauders have long, flowing hair. ALL of them.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Halfway through the film's climatic battle in a paddy field, random flaming arrows causes the entire field to go alight, culminating in a huge battle sequence where both extras and named characters have to fight each other amidst the flames.
* BattleCouple: Xiang-ding and Piao-piao against multiple faceless mooks.
* BigBad: Chao Hong, the feared marauder chief and leader of the Flying Tiger clan, who covets the precious cargo of gold the bodyguards are transporting.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: One that takes up most of the entire third act, a massive battel between the cavalier army led by Xiang-ding, Lu-yi and Piao-piao, against Chao Hong's marauder legion.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: Lu-yi ultimately decides Piao-piao is better off with Xiang-ding, her fiancee]].
* DoNotGoGentle: [[spoiler: Lu-yi in the final scene; after getting wounded by several archers, he managed to cut down all of them and keep going to the top of the pagoda to fight Chao Hong, one-on-one. [[spoiler: And win]].
* DramaPreservingHandicap: For the PowerTrio, Piao-piao suffers an injury at the end of the battle in the fields, necessiting her to stay out as Xiang-ding and Lu-yi enters the pagoda themselves. [[spoiler: And merely one floor away from the pagoda's top, where Chao Hong awaits, Xiang-ding gets put out of action thanks to an ambush from Chao Hong's mooks, leaving Lu-yi to battle Chao Hong alone]].
* DyingAlone: [[spoiler: Lu-yi]].
* EliteMooks: While the standard mooks are clad in brown outfits, Chao Hong's best fighters on the other hand wears unique clothing, and puts up a far better fight than the faceless mooks.
* GreenEyedEpiphany: From Xiang-ding, the moment Piao-piao - ''his'' fiancee - starts having feelings for Lu-yi, the new swordsman and mercenary, being visibly fawning over Lu-yi ''right in front of him''.
* HorsebackHeroism: The PowerTrio of Lu-yi, Xiang-ding and Piao-piao both travels on horses throughout the movie, and especially during the battle in the fields.
* HumanPincushion: [[spoiler: Lu-yi, on the second level from the pagoda's tip, ends up getting assailed by several archers. He kills all of them anyways, and then marches to the top to confront Chao Hong]].
* InASingleBound: Both Lu-yi and Xiang-ding can cover great distances and heights in the battle scenes, a skill that comes in ''very'' handy when they had to traverse their way upwards to the top of Chao Hong's pagoda.
* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: For the final action scene, Xiang-ding and Lu-yi had to traverse Chao Hong's Pagoda lair - just the two of them - going upwards, one level after another, each of these heavily guarded by mooks and traps, before facing Chao Hong on its top floor. Xiang-ding enters first, with Lu-yi following closely behind, and ultimately [[spoiler: Lu-yi ends up battling Chao Hong alone]].
* LoveTriangle: Between the three bodyguard leaders, Xiang-ding and Lu-yi, both who had the hots for Piao-piao. [[spoiler: Eventually Lu-yi decides [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Piao-piao is better off with Xiang-ding]] and gives her up. And also the fact that he's been mortally wounded]]...
* OneHitKill: Basically, if a faceless mook (either marauder or cavalier) gets hit even ''once'' by a named character, they die. This trope explains how Xiang-ding and Lu-yi managed to kill at least 60 people ('''each''') in the finale.
* SecretStabWound: [[spoiler: Lu-yi hides his mortal injury while bidding farewell to Xiang-ding and Piao-piao, only succumbing after they're well out of range]].
* SwordFight: Between Xiang-ding and Lu-yi, and later on when the main characters have to fight off EliteMooks outside the pagoda.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Ultimately, it's up to Lu-yi and Xiang-ding, both men caught in a LoveTriangle with Piao-piao, to [[spoiler: team up and infiltrate Chao Hong's pagoda lair for the finale]]. Neither of them are really keen with the thought of working alongside each other.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Lu-yi, Xiang-ding, Piao-piao. Plenty of CockFight scenes occurs between the former two throughout the earlier parts of the film.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Inverted. In the final battle, Lu-yi wears black, while Xiang-ding wears white. Both of them suffers multiple, life-threatening injuries while killing their way to the top of the pagoda base, [[spoiler: but in the end it's the black-clad Lu-yi who ends up dying]].
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[[caption-width-right:300:Have ''Kickass'' Martial Arts Skills, Will Take Tons and Tons of Names in Massive Action Scenes]]
''Have Sword, Will Travel'' is a 1969 Creator/ShawBrothers MartialArtsMovie directed by Chang Cheh, starring Chang's frequent collaborators and star players, Creator/TiLung and Creator/DavidChiang, with the Shaw Brothers' "Deadly Doll", Li Ching, in a key role as well.
Lung and Chiang, having appeared the same movies like ''[[Film/OneArmedSwordsman Return of the One-Armed Swordsman]]'' and ''Film/Vengeance1970'', but separately without each other onscreen, finally shows up together in this movie, the first of twenty-odd Shaw Brothers films with Lung and Chiang appearing - and kicking ass - side-by-side.
Xiang-ding (Ti Lung) and Yun Piao-piao (Li Ching) are sword-fighters, martial artists, mercenaries and a pair of lovers engaged to be married, but a week before they can tie the knot, they're given one last assignment: to escort a valuable cargo of gold through hostile territory in the Northern Fields, a territory owned by the powerful Flying Tigers gang of marauders. To make things complicated, the arrival of a new elite swordsman, Lu-yi (Chiang), serves as a potential romantic rival for Xiang-ding.
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!!Have Sword, Will Tropers:
* ActionGirl: Yun Piao-piao, the girlfriend and fiancee of Xiang-ding, who leads the cavaliers into battle along his side and is capable of taking names as well. Unfortunately she's closer to a FauxcActionGirl; getting injured right ''before'' the final confrontation, she's left out of the final assault on Chao Hong's pagoda.
* ArrowCatch: Dart Catch. During the restaurant scene, Xiang-ding decides to test Lu-yi by throwing a dart at him. Lu-yi catches said dart with his ''chopsticks''.
* BarbarianLonghair: Chao Hong's entire army of marauders have long, flowing hair. ALL of them.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Halfway through the film's climatic battle in a paddy field, random flaming arrows causes the entire field to go alight, culminating in a huge battle sequence where both extras and named characters have to fight each other amidst the flames.
* BattleCouple: Xiang-ding and Piao-piao against multiple faceless mooks.
* BigBad: Chao Hong, the feared marauder chief and leader of the Flying Tiger clan, who covets the precious cargo of gold the bodyguards are transporting.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: One that takes up most of the entire third act, a massive battel between the cavalier army led by Xiang-ding, Lu-yi and Piao-piao, against Chao Hong's marauder legion.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: Lu-yi ultimately decides Piao-piao is better off with Xiang-ding, her fiancee]].
* DoNotGoGentle: [[spoiler: Lu-yi in the final scene; after getting wounded by several archers, he managed to cut down all of them and keep going to the top of the pagoda to fight Chao Hong, one-on-one. [[spoiler: And win]].
* DramaPreservingHandicap: For the PowerTrio, Piao-piao suffers an injury at the end of the battle in the fields, necessiting her to stay out as Xiang-ding and Lu-yi enters the pagoda themselves. [[spoiler: And merely one floor away from the pagoda's top, where Chao Hong awaits, Xiang-ding gets put out of action thanks to an ambush from Chao Hong's mooks, leaving Lu-yi to battle Chao Hong alone]].
* DyingAlone: [[spoiler: Lu-yi]].
* EliteMooks: While the standard mooks are clad in brown outfits, Chao Hong's best fighters on the other hand wears unique clothing, and puts up a far better fight than the faceless mooks.
* GreenEyedEpiphany: From Xiang-ding, the moment Piao-piao - ''his'' fiancee - starts having feelings for Lu-yi, the new swordsman and mercenary, being visibly fawning over Lu-yi ''right in front of him''.
* HorsebackHeroism: The PowerTrio of Lu-yi, Xiang-ding and Piao-piao both travels on horses throughout the movie, and especially during the battle in the fields.
* HumanPincushion: [[spoiler: Lu-yi, on the second level from the pagoda's tip, ends up getting assailed by several archers. He kills all of them anyways, and then marches to the top to confront Chao Hong]].
* InASingleBound: Both Lu-yi and Xiang-ding can cover great distances and heights in the battle scenes, a skill that comes in ''very'' handy when they had to traverse their way upwards to the top of Chao Hong's pagoda.
* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: For the final action scene, Xiang-ding and Lu-yi had to traverse Chao Hong's Pagoda lair - just the two of them - going upwards, one level after another, each of these heavily guarded by mooks and traps, before facing Chao Hong on its top floor. Xiang-ding enters first, with Lu-yi following closely behind, and ultimately [[spoiler: Lu-yi ends up battling Chao Hong alone]].
* LoveTriangle: Between the three bodyguard leaders, Xiang-ding and Lu-yi, both who had the hots for Piao-piao. [[spoiler: Eventually Lu-yi decides [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Piao-piao is better off with Xiang-ding]] and gives her up. And also the fact that he's been mortally wounded]]...
* OneHitKill: Basically, if a faceless mook (either marauder or cavalier) gets hit even ''once'' by a named character, they die. This trope explains how Xiang-ding and Lu-yi managed to kill at least 60 people ('''each''') in the finale.
* SecretStabWound: [[spoiler: Lu-yi hides his mortal injury while bidding farewell to Xiang-ding and Piao-piao, only succumbing after they're well out of range]].
* SwordFight: Between Xiang-ding and Lu-yi, and later on when the main characters have to fight off EliteMooks outside the pagoda.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Ultimately, it's up to Lu-yi and Xiang-ding, both men caught in a LoveTriangle with Piao-piao, to [[spoiler: team up and infiltrate Chao Hong's pagoda lair for the finale]]. Neither of them are really keen with the thought of working alongside each other.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Lu-yi, Xiang-ding, Piao-piao. Plenty of CockFight scenes occurs between the former two throughout the earlier parts of the film.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Inverted. In the final battle, Lu-yi wears black, while Xiang-ding wears white. Both of them suffers multiple, life-threatening injuries while killing their way to the top of the pagoda base, [[spoiler: but in the end it's the black-clad Lu-yi who ends up dying]].
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