Hawk the Slayer (1980) on Netflix
Voltan mortally wounds his father for the last elven mind stone. Hawk takes the sword that answers his thoughts. To free an abbess, he gathers an elf, a dwarf and a giant.
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Hawk's brother Voltan comes to their father's castle for the key to an ancient power and kills the old man over the last elven mind stone. Hawk, who arrives as his father dies, is handed a great sword whose pommel joins the stone to form a blade that obeys his mind. Ranulf, who lost a hand escaping Voltan's attack on his village, is nursed by nuns at a convent until Voltan appears at their mass and carries off the Abbess for ransom. The nuns send Ranulf to the Fortress of Danesford, and the High Abbot points him to Hawk, who frees the warrior from brigands. Ranulf persuades Hawk to rescue the Abbess. Hawk gathers Gort, a giant, Crow, an elf archer, and Baldin, a dwarf with a whip. They rob a slave trader to raise the ransom.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hawk the Slayer (1980)
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- Director Terry Marcel said Hawk the Slayer was first meant to be a purely historical film with no sorcery at all; he only added the magical mind stone that powers Hawk's sword while writing the script.
- The score by co-writer and co-producer Harry Robertson, who had previously scored Hammer films such as Countess Dracula and Twins of Evil, drew on the electronic sound of Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds and gave Hawk a five-note whistle echoing Clint Eastwood's Leone westerns.
- British rock band The Darkness sampled a line of dialogue spoken by Drogo in Hawk the Slayer for their 2013 single "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us".
