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Release Date:
26 June 1981 (USA)
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IN THE DARK AGES DRAGONS WERE REAL. [USA theatrical] more
Plot:
A King has made a pact with a dragon where he sacrfices virgins to it, and the dragon leaves his kingdom alone...
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 5 nominations
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(7 articles)
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(From QuietEarth. 9 August 2009, 9:43 AM, PDT)
Cinematheque, Joe Dante, Vampire-Con genre screenings in Hollywood
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Peter MacNicol | ... | Galen |
 | Caitlin Clarke | ... | Valerian |
| Ralph Richardson | ... | Ulrich |
| John Hallam | ... | Tyrian |
| Peter Eyre | ... | Casiodorus Rex |
| Albert Salmi | ... | Greil |
| Sydney Bromley | ... | Hodge |
| Chloe Salaman | ... | Princess Elspeth |
| Emrys James | ... | Valerian's Father |
| Roger Kemp | ... | Horsrik |
 | Ian McDiarmid | ... | Brother Jacopus |
| Ken Shorter | ... | Henchman |
| Jason White | ... | Henchman |
| Yolande Palfrey | ... | Victim |
| Douglas Cooper | ... | Urlander |
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Runtime:
108 min | USA:109 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L |
Iceland:LH (video rating) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Denmark:11 |
Iceland:12 |
Finland:K-16 (video rating) |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:M |
Chile:TE |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG
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Its almost an hour into the film before the dragon makes a proper appearance, and then an additional 20 minutes after that before we see it up close.
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Continuity: During one of the dragon attacks, Galen tells Valerian to run. But then a few seconds later, he wants to know where she's going.
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Princess Elspeth:
[Princess Elspeth visits Galen in her father's dungeon] ... Please don't think ill of us. Father is a wise and evenhanded man. He's...
[She notices a wound across Galen's temple]
Princess Elspeth: ... What happened to you?
Galen: [sullen] Nothing. Just some of your father's... evenhandedness.
Princess Elspeth: It... it's better for everyone this way. A king must protect his people.
Galen: Naturally. Just as he protects his daughter.
Princess Elspeth: What do you mean by that? Are you referring to the lottery?
Galen: You don't have to pretend, not to me, not down here. Everyone knows how this... choosing works. The families with money, royal connections... You've participated in a lie, and you know it.
Princess Elspeth: ...I have to go now.
[she seeks out her father, who is vainly trying to make gold out of lead with Galen's amulet]
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[She notices a wound across Galen's temple]
Princess Elspeth: ... What happened to you?
Galen: [sullen] Nothing. Just some of your father's... evenhandedness.
Princess Elspeth: It... it's better for everyone this way. A king must protect his people.
Galen: Naturally. Just as he protects his daughter.
Princess Elspeth: What do you mean by that? Are you referring to the lottery?
Galen: You don't have to pretend, not to me, not down here. Everyone knows how this... choosing works. The families with money, royal connections... You've participated in a lie, and you know it.
Princess Elspeth: ...I have to go now.
[she seeks out her father, who is vainly trying to make gold out of lead with Galen's amulet]
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Referenced in The Sasquatch Gang (2006)
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I saw this when it came out, in the theater, in 1981. It was a sort of surprise hit that summer. This is a movie with plot. It's about a young man and woman meeting challenges, death, redemption, the death of magic and the birth of Christianity, and the hypocrisy of gov't. And it's all disguised as a PG movie about a dragon which is terrorizing a hamlet of decent people in the Dark Ages.
HIGHLY recommended. PG, but does have one foot gnawing which today would probably give it an R or X rating given the gutlessness of parents everywhere :). This is an early movie by Industrial Light and Magic, or ILM as it's known nowadays, and I believe was funded by Disney. Despite that it's got a gritty edge. Check it out, for youths and adults