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Whips of Fire is a film of genre Drama directed by Djadoeg Djajakusuma with Soekarno M. Noer
Whips of Fire (1958)
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Add to a movie listTjambuk Api (literally Whips of Fire) is a 1958 Indonesian martial arts film directed by D. Djajakusuma and produced by Usmar Ismail. Starring Bambang Irawan, Aminah Cendrakasih, Soekarno M. Noer, and Rendra Karno, it tells of a young villager who must challenge a local criminal to be with his love. The film underwent several modifications over a period of more than a year before it could pass the censorship board, but now remains one of Djajakusuma's better known works.
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Kasan (Bambang Irawan) lost his father when he was young to an ill-fated whip duel. To avoid such a fate for him, his mother has him become a farmer. He uses his intelligence to create an irrigation system in their village in East Java, which provides them with plenty of rice. However, the village is terrorised by the whip-warrior and criminal Suro (Rendra Karno), who calls for tributes.Actors
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Later that night the men who flirted with Carla and some other go to the bar. They start to drink and they discuss about Carla. Fletch becomes mad. Timmy states he saw her naked only with panties. They then say let's teach her a lesson. Timmy says that she is alone. Later that night the men sneak in her house and take off her clothes. They then assault her. Fletch then rapes her and so do the other men. Burke seems really happy to do this. Later Carla's parents come. Timmy wakes up (Because he fell) and he is shocked that they raped her. When the parents come in the house Burke grabs Mr. Harris's shot gun and kill Carla's parents. Thinking that Carla died the men shoot Timmy since he was going to tell the police. They then frame Mr. Harris and then leave. BUT CARLA IS NOT DEAD! The gang start to feel safe. Meanwhile, in the hospital Carla has not spoken one word! The sheriff decides to help her but Carla dismisses. When she hears a woman in the other bedroom screaming at a figure. She tells the doctor that she wants revenge and tell her revenge skills. Later that night Carla escapes from the hospital. She goes to the closed bar and tell the wine man (Who raped her) to poor wine all over his body. She steals his gun then she throws a candle at the wine man leaving him to burn! She says "Burn Bastard!" The next day Carla pretends to be scared. The doctor tells Carla in the big backyard she can take a look around the lake. Then Carla looks around. She thens spots one of her rapists in their speedboat. He looks at her and it's BURKE! Carla takes off her clothes and seduces him to take a dip. She grabs a knife on the boat and stabs him. She then takes a grapple and throws it threw his chest. She ties the other end to his boat. She starts to the boat and making him drown. She says "DROWN BASTARD!" Then she escapes. Police find the body and think that CARLA did it! Fletch makes a group to kill Carla but the sheriff breaks the group up. Carla then sneaks to Sparky's gas station. When the sheriff comes to see him CARLA hides. When he leaves Sparky starts to work on a car and goes under it. Carla sneaks to him and drop the car on him. She starts the car and it bumps into a 50L gasoline can making it explode killing Sparky. Police then go after her but she escapes and hides in the woods. Later that night Carla goes to Arnie's ice company. When Arnie finds her, he chases her in the factory and keeps shooting. Carla starts to hide in the maze of ice. Fletch hears about this and goes to the ice factory to pick up Arnie. Carla pushes Arnie in the ice cube maker. A block of ice pushes him in the cube hole leaving him to die. Carla goes in the ice truck then Fletch, the gang and some town locals spot her and chase her to her parent's house. Carla blocks the doors and hides in a corner. The men start to burn the house down. The men think she is dead but Carla goes in the basement and goes into a vent leading her to escape. Now Fletch is the only one that Carla has not killed. When the sheriff asks Fletch about the burning he dismisses. Later that night Fletch is the only one in the butcher shop. Carla takes a knife but Fletch find her and cuts her. They two then fight. Fletch cuts himself and he is about to put Calra's head in the meat slicer. She pokes his eyes and stabs his back. The two again fight. Now the both of them are beaten like hell. Carla tries to get out but the door is locked. She goes in the office and locks the door. Fletch takes and axe. When Carla opens the drawer she finds the shot gun that Fletch killed her family with. She then shoots him killing him! Finally all the gang members died. The police find out that Carla did this. The sheriff gets a call from Russo saying that they found the murderer of her husband. The sheriff says that Carla died but he lied. The sheriff says that so there won't be any more murders in the area. 2 MONTHS LATER IN NEW YORK. Carla got away from the murders that shattered her life. Carla then finds the man who killed her husband. He does not remember her though. Carla pretends to like him and they start to walk around. Carla seduces him then grabs his gun. She points it at him and then says "Don't you wanna know how this thing works?" then she shoots him. Now she killed everyone who shattered her world. She then starts to walk away in tears as the main credits show.