本片由唐佳导演,着名武侠小说家黄鹰编剧,影帝狄龙主演。剧情讲述广东十虎之首铁桥三(狄龙 饰),乃民团总教练,时烟禁已开,鸦片公卖,官绅贩卒均以吸食鸦片为尚,而铁亦随俗吸食,功力渐受毒害不自知。烟馆主人荣峰(陈观泰 饰)乘铁无复当年勇时,公然挑战;铁勉力应战,险象环生,幸得徒弟卢瓜四(麦德罗 饰)舍身相救,才不致丧命……A Kung Fu master finds out that an opium den is destroying the lives of the town he lives in, and vows to put an end to the den, but first he must try to defeat the strongest enemy he has ever faced: his addiction to the drug itself.