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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131133295
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 24, 2001
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 41260
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 1982-04
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Trashy entertainment!
Yes, it's goofy. I love Richard Lynch. He can play really ugly characters and not need special makeup (kinda like Ron Pearlman). Lee Horsley ... did this son of a gun fall off the earth? In a minor part as one of Cromwell's villanous hordes is Robert Tessier. Best remembered for his cage fight in HARD TIMES (where old Charlie Bronson beat on his pointy-bald head like a drum). If you don't ask for much thsn this film delivers.
Rating: - Not good as Beastmaster and Conan! :(
This movie is not exciting and action-packed as Beastmaster and NOTHING interesting as Conan. The storyline is VERY slow, there are many silly dialoges, poor acting, BAD battle choreography, no exciting adventure scenes, no particular monsters, and it has some few cool action scenes.
The reason that I gave this movie 3 stars is because of the FREAKING COOL THREE-BLADED SWORD, the dark settings, bloody killings, production desings, and the last 15 minutes of the final battle that finally ... Read More
Rating:  - Deserves a Re-release!!!
I almost forgot about this gem of a movie because I never see it for DVD purchase in any stores. It was my favorite fantasy film of the 80's. I used to watch it with Clash of the Titans almost everyday. Please re-release this film!!! It is unfair that the only way to own it is to pay $44.99 or higher from sellers who are not all 100 percent trustworthy. Plus it's so so funny!!!
Rating: - The Sword and the Sorcerer
This is a fun fantasy - the good guys are smart, witty and handsome and the bad guys are so so evil. The bad guys solicit help from an evil sorcerer to take over a kingdom. Years later a band of mercenaries agree to help the rebellion regain the kingdom. Includes the classic story - bag guy steals girl, good guy(s) save girl and the kingdom....
This film doesn't take itself seriously and there are a lot of funny lines buried throughout the story. A fun movie to to watch when you want to sit ... Read More
Rating:  - Uninspired, silly, and needlessly bloody fantasy dreck.
Fantasy movies from the early 1980s, with few exceptions, varied mostly from run of the mill mediocre to painfully bad. Albert Pyun's THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER, a bargain-basement budgeted, uninspired, and messy bloodfest from 1982, falls among the lowest end of the spectrum. Clocking in at a seemingly neverending 100 minutes, it starts out when medieval tyrant King Cromwell (Richard Lynch), on a quest for world domination, resurrects a centuries-old sorcerer, Xusia (Richard Moll, in heavy lizardlike ... Read More
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