The Swordsman

The Swordsman

Some called her Dirty Harriet. A Cut Above The Rest

1974 · 90 min · ★ 8.0 · Action

When Harriet Zapper is hired to find the identity of Karel Duval, and the true heir to the Duval family fortune, a bloody trail of murders leads the Big Zapper from London to the South of France and into a hornet's nest of betrayal and death.

Directed by Lindsay Shonteff · Written by Ellis Hugh Brody

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