7 Early Sword and Sorcery Movies

[The-Last-Wolf]

Hi All,

How can we forget The Princess Bride :-)

"I'm not left handed either"

Regards
Wolf

[Zanuzi]

Sword of the Barbarians (1982) - possibly the worst ever made

hero dies half-way through and the secret weapon they quest for turns out to be a crossbow?

[Happosaai]

A lot of great titles in here.

Anyone remember this one? I saw it as a kid living in Japan

The Seven Swords of Waylan.

I can;t find any trace of it on IMDB, but it was very reminiscent of the Swords books by Saberhagen...

[The-Last-Wolf]

Also while I remember

A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

Anyone playing a monk in DDO should have this on their watch list LOL

Wolf

[Phidius]

Showing my age? Challenge accepted!

The Court Jester. 1955
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049096/

Tongue teasers, midgets, knights, jousting, knaves, minstrels/bards, swashbuckling, and Angela Lansbury was hot.

I kept waiting for Angela Lansbury to corner Ravenhurst and grill him on his plot, and all the while the sheriff is in the next room listening to the whole thing.

"What I don't understand is how you managed to negotiate the assasination contract without alerting the lords to your plans?"

Op:

How about Big Trouble in Little China?

[NadgersFishtoaster]

A lot of great titles in here.

Anyone remember this one? I saw it as a kid living in Japan

The Seven Swords of Waylan.

I can;t find any trace of it on IMDB, but it was very reminiscent of the Swords books by Saberhagen...

Do you mean this film?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seven-Swords.../dp/B00005A3OJ

[marm311]

what about legend with tom cruise

[Zanuzi]

A lot of great titles in here.

Anyone remember this one? I saw it as a kid living in Japan

The Seven Swords of Waylan.

I can;t find any trace of it on IMDB, but it was very reminiscent of the Swords books by Saberhagen...

Seem to remember it was an extended episode of Robin Hood series from ITV in UK

http://www.robinofsherwood.org/swords.html

[die]

Conan by a mile, i loved the narration.. story line costumes

[Ciaran]

Come on one of those movies had Wayanses, it had to be good.

That's the wrong one of the two that is actually tolerable.

Of course, the second D&D Movie is only tolerable because of Ellie Chidzey who played Lux and the white dragon eating the cleric.

Another movie I don't see here: Masters of the Universe with Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langella.

I loved that movie when I was 9.

[BurnerD]

The Sword and the Sorcerer.

Richard Moll (Bull of Night Court) was the villain.

The three bladed sword rocked.... it was cheesy and looked like it was made of plastic, but it still rocked.

[The-Last-Wolf]

Yep,

Seven Swords of Wayland was an episode of Robin of Sherwood, an ITV production filmed in Wales in the 80's. the series was "goundbreaking" in that it tried to portray magic, or at least the link between the people of the time and the land in a serious believable way (ok season 3 went OTT).

Wayland the smith is a character from Germanic mythology and so a minor figure in English, German, Norse mythology, and a hero to modern Swordsmiths and Cutlers.

Steel working in the 6th to 10th century Northern Europe, especially that surrounding pattern welded blades lends creedance to the concept of "legendary" swordmakers and the swords that they produced. With the right raw materials, and years of experience and secret techniques, it is entirely likely that certain swordmakers produced weapons that appeared to be "magic", as their superior strength, sharpness and durability far outweighed the common mass produced swords and armour.

Oppps sorry, favourite subject sorry for derail.

Robin of Sherwood rocks!!!!

Regards
Wolf

[BurnerD]

http://www.imdb.com/list/YCOQlpobkTQ/

The link above is a list of fantasy/adventure movies from 70 - 96.

Most of the ones mentioned in this thread are on the list..

Remember Dragonslayer?

[Happosaai]

Seem to remember it was an extended episode of Robin Hood series from ITV in UK

http://www.robinofsherwood.org/swords.html

Yes, this is the one! :-) Yay. I'm not the only one who knew of this!

[hit_fido]

I actually think Conan the Barbarian is an awesome film. Fantastic Basil Poledouris soundtrack.

Agreed! Some people can't get past seeing Arnold and hearing all his comedy one liners from later films. Anyway it has one of the greatest movie villain performances of all time: James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom.

[drsmooth]

Peter Yates, the director of Krull just passed away recently.

[Missing_Minds]

Peter Yates, the director of Krull just passed away recently.

That is sad. I really need to find a copy of that movie to show the wife. I think she'd like the horses.

[Fridas]

Showing my age? Challenge accepted!

The Court Jester. 1955
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049096/

Tongue teasers, midgets, knights, jousting, knaves, minstrels/bards, swashbuckling, and Angela Lansbury was hot.

The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!

Holy Smoke! I love that movie, its awesome, showing my age now.

(seriously Turbine, I can't say cr@P)

[Fridas]

Agreed! Some people can't get past seeing Arnold and hearing all his comedy one liners from later films. Anyway it has one of the greatest movie villain performances of all time: James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom.

Also agreed, I think that Conan is one of the best depictions of D&D out there, and one of the best soundtracks ever, I find nothing cheesy about Conan......and don't even get me started on William Smith, only in it for a few minutes but what a few minutes, I love that man, best bad guy/stunt man in Hollywood.

[Ganolyn]

Wizards!

Fritz! Fritz! They killed Fritz! Those lousy stinkin' no good blah, blah, blah....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujQ-nMc0WGE