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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Hal Barwood (written by) &
Matthew Robbins (written by)
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Release Date:
26 June 1981 (USA) more
Tagline:
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... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 nominations more
User Comments:
Excellent more (87 total)

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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Additional Details

Runtime:
108 min | USA:109 min
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Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Vistasonic (some 35 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
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. more
Goofs:
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. more
Quotes:
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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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Sasquatch Gang (2006) more

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22 out of 28 people found the following comment useful.
Excellent, 27 December 2004
10/10
Author: otto4 from California, USA

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

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