Dai Xiaoyao (Zhao Xiong), "The Golden Lion," is another of those rob from the rich, give to the poor "good" bad guys. Unfortunately, Wang (Wang Xia) and his band of big game hunters are on his trail and Dai ends up being poisoned by Wang's poison claw (and his family slaughtered)- but not before Dai demonstrates his incredible strength. The big battle takes place during a driving thunderstorm, and we see Dai pick up and throw several of Wang's men like they were rag dolls (at one point, he picks up TWO men at once and heaves them at the competition). But Mother Nature intervenes and Dai just happens to be standing under a tree when lightning strikes it. A large limb falls on him, pinning him to the ground- but, again demonstrating superhuman strength, he lifts the limb (which looks more like the TRUNK of the tree) and tosses it into a crowd of onrushing henchmen. He manages to escape, but, feeling the effects of the poison, goes in search of the local doctor, Lu (Fang Mien), who can cure him. One of the stranger aspects of THE GOLDEN LION is that the hero spends much of the movie either incapacitated or simply off screen. And, en route to finding a cure for the poison in his system, he's bitten by a giant snake (which doesn't render him as helpless as the poison claw: he simply sucks the venom from the bite and spits it out. Lu goes above and beyond in his efforts to aid the hero. The American Medical Association would do well to emulate him.