The Warrior And The Sorceress [1984] [DVD]

This is now my favourite sword and sorcery film, and one of my favourites of any genre.Fairly similar in plot to "A Fistful of Dollars", the film features a sword-wielding eccentric, an unconvincing glove-puppet monster, and not one, not two, but three evil villains.The costume designer is to be congratulated. Throughout the film, the Sorceress and one of the evil henchmen are topless, so fans of breasts and of muscles are well catered for.Although the planet appears to lack the technology to produce guns, it has access to stretch fabrics, so the lovely Maria Socas, as the Sorceress, can go about in little more than bikini bottoms. My kind of planet.There is a battle scene in which both sides are too afraid to attack each other, which is both funny and authentic.David Carradine is suitably deadpan as the Warrior, but his silly walk is a comedy highlight.Despite the insane cruelty of the villains, such as drowning a naked lady in a glass tank for entertainment, this film left me feeling cheerful.

Kain, a lone warrior of the mystical wastelands (Argentina) arrives at a dump of a town, wherein two factions are fighting for supremacy of a well. The locals getting a bad deal whichever way, their only purpose seemingly to be sold as slaves to the local traders. There he begins to work freelance as a sword for hire, whilst all the while, really working for a heretic who lives in a ruin, in a bid to free a captured sorceress...This is a pretty poor effort in absolute fairness to it. Carradine looks the part but is given little to do in this lame rip off of Yojimbo, a story which if unfamiliar to the audience, is sure to have been seen by them in one of it's many other guises over the years Fistful of Dollars, Django, Last Man Standing etc, with this version coming across as pretty lousy and mostly dull, even at it's mere 74m long run time.Luke Askew, normally very reliable at providing surly or menacing characters, is neither here nor there and is left to deliver some fairly silly dialogue around the cheapo, campy sets and grating American accents. With most of the cast running around in head scarves, sandals and nappies, so that it's impossible to tell who's who or what side their on.The sword fights and action okay, but featuring almost no bloody violence at all, with instead the biggest highlight of this offering, being endless displays of the female form, the pinnacle of which showcases a woman with four breasts (two fake!) doing a belly dance.Of course other than 'Mrs Four Boobs', there's also a mumbling lizard creature to be wowed by, but the effects on it are so naff, it wouldn't even wow or fool the most gullible of Glycon believers!All in all it's cheap and cheerful, short and silly, and therefore unlikely to ruin your evening, but even if you bear in mind that it was made over 30 years ago, on the cheap, for a male teen audience, it's still pretty rubbish and not as good as quite a few of it's sword and sorcery contemporaries. You have been warned.The UK disc on the Prism Leisure label is watchable, but suffers from being too dark and looking like it's been ripped from VHS.3/5

Not the best reinvention of Yojimbo,that would be Clint Eastwood,but for dumb entertainment value i'd rank it ahead of Bruce Willis's version (Last Man Standing).The cartoon cover of David Carradine with muscles he never had tells you what to expect.There are a few on screen gems from the effects people,stuff that has been repeated elsewhere since eg The Schwarzenegger version of Total Recall.The budget was probably less than the catering contract for either of those films though,so this really isnt good,on any level,but it is entertaining and along with the original film version of Lone Wolf McQuade it makes me think that if Carradine had played the Jeff Cooper part in Silent Flute/Circle of Iron that could have been one of the best bad films ever made.Instead of that though this neglected movie is an example of Carradine at his best.None of the boredom on display in Kung Fu Killer,just a really good bad film.It might take a while,but you're bound to end up watching it more than once or twice if you are even curious about it now.

David Carradine reprises his wandering mystical figure to become the man with no name (Kain in the credits) in this rehash of Yojimbo and the later Fistful of Dollars. The film has all the hallmarks of a cheap rip-off - poor acting and inept script; weird creatures that leave you laughing; a four breasted female exotic dancer with a sting in the tail; and of course some topless babes. You cannot have a sword and sorcery film without a topless sorceress; and thankfully, Maria Sorcas spends a good amount of time topless.The image quality of the UK DVD is good but it beggars belief that anyone would want to remaster an inept film like this. The run time is 78 minutes and aspect ratio is 1.33:1 full-screen. The only extra is a trailer

Martial arts meets western, give me a glass of water please.

Se vi piace il genere heroic fantasy anni '80 lo troverete fantastico. Ha tutti gli elementi necessari: protagonista solitario e imbattibile a duello, cattivoni tiranni che giocano con le vite dei deboli e donne affascinanti spesso e volentieri senza veli.Purtroppo non esistono dvd con i sottotitoli (neanche in inglese) in nessuna versione. Ma la storia risulta facile da seguire anche per chi ha solo un'infarinatura base della lingua. La sceneggiatura in per sé è davvero semplice. Credo che sia solo il 30% del film che presenti conversazioni, il resto sono scontri, duelli, infiltrazioni e fughe.Le vicende si svolgono in un mondo desertico dove due tribù si contendono un pozzo, l'unica fonte d'acqua della zona. Il protagonista aiuterà a volte una fazione e a volte un'altra solo per il proprio tornaconto, finché non troverà e salverà la Sorceress nel titolo, e deciderà di aiutare le persone che soffrono a causa di questa guerra.Niente veri colpi di scena, ma il divertimento (obbligo che amiate il genere) è assicurato.

Argentinian actress Maria Socas carries this film. We've seen the storyline before in "Yojimbo" and "A Fistful of Dollars" but now with a sword-and-sandal Fantasy twist where a sorceress is held as a hostage instead of a main characters' wife. And oh what a hostage she makes! Maria Socas is a beautiful woman and her beauty is on full display in this film. Her costuming is straight out of a Frazetta painting, with all the powerful eroticism retained. The supporting characters are so-so but the actors are obviously doing what they can with them. Carradine seems almost bored (or stoned) and the fight scenes are generally weak. Still, we have Maria Socas unashamed of her feminimity, and that counts for a lot in this genre. This film could have been so much more had there been greater peril to the damsel; such as a torture scene or two where Carradine has to come to her rescue. As it is, even the "horror" of a girl drowning for the evil king's entertainment is only done so-so, and Carradine doesn't lift a finger to save her, or really seem to care one way or another. Not exactly hero material, but then he's supposed to be the self-centered type out for his own riches and not a true do-gooder... until he finds the Sorceress in her jail cell. Alone. Helpless. Looking for her hero. That's when the tide turns.This particular copy is one of the better ones out there but still suffers from "aging" in terms of clarity and color-fastness. Still, it's not hard to watch and makes for good escapism when you don't want to think too hard.

Very campy and not very original but I love the story line. I love anything with David Carradine and this is one of his strangest movies. Well worth owning if you are a fan. I will buy any movie he has made. It is great fun to watch.

This movie is more boring than painful, but it is bad just the same. I bought it after reading the divergence of opinions here and found it to be mostly boring and mostly bad, with occasional points of light. Well, two points of light anyway. The first point of light: David Carradine plays a character named 'Kain', which is an obvious in-joke from his "Kung Fu" days when he played a character named 'Caine'. I don't know why this amused me so much, but I found that pretty funny for some reason. The second (and larger) point of light is Luke Askew as 'Zeg' in what is clearly the best performance in the movie. Askew is actually a very good actor, although he appeared in this and three other movies with David Carradine (including "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues") and even once on "Knight Rider"! He is, of course, better known for his excellent characterizations in "Cool Hand Luke" and "Easy Rider". Here he is a beacon of light. His performance isn't one of the best in his career, but it certainly beats the other performances seen here.Frankly, I am a fan of all genres of B-grade films, but the mystical films are not one of my favorite subsets of cheese. This one basically pits Kain, the 'Dark One', against everyone. He is a mercenary for hire to the highest bidder (although the trailer says it is the ultimate fight between good and evil): Carradine spends most of the film switching allegiances based on pecuniary considerations. It is tough to keep up with which side he's on at times, but in the end, inspired by the sorceress he sides with the peasant revolt and helps kill off the pig-faced slavers. Thematically, the film centers on the value of water as a natural resource and Kain's bank account. The movie has comically named characters like 'Bludge', 'Zeg', 'Burgo', 'Blather', 'Gabble' and 'Hubcap'. (I'm not sure about that last one; it is hard to understand some of the names.) Kain's power ultimately comes from the magic 'Sword of Ura' which the sorceress makes for him. It is so mighty it can cut through rocks! Zeg launches an all out war to get it, with the help of the fat guy and his talking pangolin (or is it a Komodo Dragon?) puppet (which speaks, though his lips don't move). Eventually Kane, sorry, I mean Kain takes on just about the whole planet and wins water for the oppressed masses.This movie has both its share of good and bad. The swordplay is actually very good, particularly in the final scene. The big black clouds that herald Kain's entrance onto the battlefield and the incredibly stupid giant land squid (with teeth!) are leaders in the bad column. Also modestly in the bad column is leading lady Maria Socas (better known for her work in Argentinean cinema with such credits as "Sobredosis", "El Color Escondido", and the 2002 release "Sin Intervalado") who has serious hair issues (though to cut her some slack, this movie was made in 1984) and is really not a very good actress, and is frankly not quite attractive enough to walk around in her given costume (if you can call it that.) She isn't terrible, but mostly looks disinterested.This movie isn't particularly good, but it isn't wretched either. It is too long, though, at 81 minutes. If it were an hour long it would be a much more entertaining production. Features of the DVD include trailers from this and many similar movies (actually the narration in the trailer made some sense of plot points which were confusing) as well as biographies/filmographies of the four central characters.Two stars. It won't ruin your life or cause you to seek therapy, but there are many better (and many funnier) B movies out there.

First of all, I have never seen the film Yojimbo to which many other reviewers alude to as being the "inspiration" for the plot of The Warrior and the Sorceress, so I cannot comment if it is indeed a rip-off, though it probably is. I will say that as far as cheesy sword and sorcery films go, this one is pretty good. Mind you I'm comparing it to others of similar budget and "quality" such as Barbarian Queen or Ator the Fighting Eagle not to Conan the Barbarian or Beastmaster.The main attraction here is the T & A content, of which there is plenty.(...) This is worth the price of the DVD alone. Also there is assorted nudity throughout the film in case one looses interest in the bare bones plot regarding a struggle over a water well by two evil warlords.David Carradine plays Kaine or The Dark One, as he is called by almost everyone, who wanders into town and is entangled in the struggle for the water well. He switches sides often, depending on who pays the most gold and is as treacherous as he is cunning and greedy.There are plenty of groan inducing moments, mainly one in which Carradinde fights a tentacled monster who is plainly all rubber and also a lizard creature who is little more than a sock puppet. In general The Warrior and the Sorceress delivers what it promises, a fun, light story with plenty of naked babes and sword fight scenes.