China O'Brien

China O'Brien was the first in a series of low-budget atypical 1980s martial arts film ("China O'Brien 2," etc...) starring actress and martial artist Cynthia Rothrock. Faced with heat from her superiors after shooting and killing a gang member, police officer China O'Brien (Cynthia Rothrock) resigns from the force, and then she returns to her hometown of Beaver Creek, Utah, where her father, John O'Brien (David Blackwell), is the sheriff. China discovers that John is gradually losing control of the town to local crime boss Edwin Sommers (Steven Kerby), who controls corrupt deputy Marty Lickner (Patrick Adamson) and corrupt local judge Harry Godar (Will Hazlett). When John and honest deputy Ross Tyler (Chad Walker) are killed by car bombs that were planted by Sommers's henchmen, there is an emergency election to elect a new sheriff. China runs for sheriff against Lickner to see who take John's place while, at the same time, she starts cleaning up the town with the help of her... full article at wikipedia