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The Sword and the Sorcerer [DVD]
Format | Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Anamorphic, DVD |
Contributor | Nina Van Pallandt, John V. Stuckmeyer, Simon MacCorkindale, Albert Pyun, Robert Tessier, Richard Moll, Tom Karnowski, Lee Horsley, Joseph Ruskin, Anthony De Longis, Jeff Corey, Anna Bjorn, Richard Lynch, Kathleen Beller, George Maharis See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 39 minutes |
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Sword and the Sorcerer (Widescreen) [Import]
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Lean, lanky Lee Horsley (TV's Matt Houston) is hardly the iconic image of a medieval warrior, but in this cheesy Conan the Barbarian knockoff he makes his swaggering, mercenary Talon a genial smart aleck of a barbarian hero. The plot is pure pulp cliché: evil Cromwell (Richard Lynch) raises a demon to conquer a peaceful kingdom, kill the rulers, and imprison the royal heirs, and the son of a murdered patriot returns to take his righteous vengeance with a projectile-loaded, three-bladed sword. First-time director Albert Pyun apprenticed under Akira Kurosawa and brings with him an eye for handsome images and a fluid sense of action that helps overcome B-movie dialogue ("Unlock this door, wench, and leave that to us!"), scenery-chewing performances, and bargain-basement budget. In one fight sequence a guard punches a rock wall--and dents it! Kathleen Beller (the dark-eyed beauty of The Betsy) is the rebel princess who enlists Talon to the cause, Route 66's charming wanderer George Maharis is a conniving traitor under an unflattering mop of greasy hair, and Richard Moll dons a latex monster mask to play the double-crossed demon. It's utterly silly and often awkward, but it does have energy to spare. The sequel promised at the end of the film was never produced and Pyun went on to direct some of the best straight-to-video action films of the 1990s, including Nemesis. --Sean Axmaker
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.84 ounces
- Director : Albert Pyun
- Media Format : Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Anamorphic, DVD
- Run time : 1 hour and 39 minutes
- Release date : April 24, 2001
- Actors : Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller, Simon MacCorkindale, George Maharis, Richard Lynch
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
- ASIN : B000059PP2
- Writers : Albert Pyun, John V. Stuckmeyer, Tom Karnowski
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #52,333 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #703 in Fantasy DVDs
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Once upon a time, long, long ago, I found a book. Just a couple hundred pages long, but chock-full of bloody adventure. The cover is what grabbed my attention, really: a vicious looking ape-thing, partially covered with a tattered crimson cape, and a lean, scarred, snarling blue-eyed barbarian, armed with nothing but a short blade, clinging to the monster's back. I begged my mom to buy it for me. After several head-shakes and skeptical looks regarding my fascination with the silly thing, she gave in. And thus it was my first exposure to Robert E. Howard and Frank Frazetta, an event that probably warped me beyond belief. I spent the next few years tracking down everything Howard ever wrote, every Conan story ever published, and just about every other conceivable sword & sorcery and dark fantasy story/compilation/novel I could lay my hands on, with authors ranging from the swashbuckling classics (Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories) to the dark, creepy and, well, Wagner-esk (Karl Edward Wagner, and his sorcerer/warrior/killer, Kane).
Spiral down the road bit - I'm a little older, haphazardly dealing with my freshman year of high school, and suddenly Howard's stories came to life with a Muscle & Fitness magazine article featuring pre-Gubornator Ah-nold and the film version of Conan the Barbarian. Being rebels, albeit too young to go see an R-rated movie by ourselves, some friends and I promptly decided to sneak into a local theater on opening day and watch Ah-nold mangle the English language on celluloid. We stayed and watched him defeat Thulsa Doom and toss James Earl Jones' severed head down those steep marble steps five times in a row.
Right afterwards, I ran to the store and bought the movie novelization. Read that. Re-read all my Conan comic books, too.
And so it went - my obsession with sword & sorcery books suddenly transmorgified into a new obsession with, ta-dah! Movies! And thank God, because right about that time She decided to invent the VCR (err, yeah, I know, Betamax came first. Whatever). My dad splurged and bought a big, clunky top-loading VCR that cost something like four hundred bucks (but hey - now he could tape golf while he watched football) and had a 'remote' with a four-foot cord that was attached directly to the unit (Ah, the golden days. But you know what? That thing was a freakin' tank - it lasted FOREVER and would play ANYTHING, no matter how messed up the tape was).
So I spent the next four years watching every cheesy sci-fi/fantasy flick that our local, pre-Blockbuster/mega-video store managed to pull in to stock. From the Good (Conan, Excalibur) to the crummy (Conan the Destroyer, the Barbarians), to... this. The Sword & the Sorcerer.
Low budget. Yes. But so much better for it. This baby is right out of the gritty, blood-caked, Weird Tales style of dark fantasy, with the swashbuckling warrior (Lee Horsely, who's career pretty much ended right here), on a bloodthirsty quest to rescue the sultry, beautiful princess (Kathleen Beller) from the vile, wicked sorcerer (Richard Moll), in the process winning back his stolen kingdom, torn away by a bloodthirsty tyrant (Richard Lynch). Sci-fi/action hack supreme Albert Pyun (see Nemesis - one the cooler Blade Runner/Terminator/Cyborg style knock-offs) directs with an unusual flair for something this on-the-cheap, making Sword & The Sorcerer a cheesy treat to remember.
By the way - yeah, I bought the novelization for this one, too. And I still have it, safely tucked away with all my old Conan books. Even though I just ordered Sword & Sorcerer on DVD, I dunno if I can wait. Think I'll go pull the book out now, then jump into bed with a flashlight, pull the covers over my head, and read until the sun creeps up.
Maybe I'm not so grown up yet after all.
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De l' avoir en DVD me plaît bien et je retrouve ma jeunesse!
Bien expédié dans les délais prévus comme d' habitude , très satisfaite de mon achat.