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The Sword and the Sorcerer
Medieval magic and virulence, laid on with a shovel; hopefully the model endeavour to start an wrong-doomed rotation.
The Sword and the Sorcerer
This unexciting and very bloody masquerade excursion was an attempt to lacuna on the sword-and-shamanism bandwagon that was backlash-started by the success of Schwarzenegger's Conan the Barbarian. Much chewing of scenery is in averment here as Errol Flynn wannabe Lee Horsley and his celebrate band of mercenaries (including Mr Susan George, Simon MacCorkindale) do competition with flagitious royal Richard Lynch to rescue an enslaved kingdom. Directorial debutante Albert Pyun commits the three highest sins representing a masquerade talkie: being confusing, unimaginative and dull. The just novelty here is the hero's three-bladed sword, and that soon overstays its welcome. The terminate credits promised a supplement but due to audience apathy it was never made.
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