Il mondo di Yor (1983)

User Rating:

3.3/10   

Director:

Antonio Margheriti

Writers:

Ray Collins (graphic novel "Henga, el cazador") &
Juan Zanotto (graphic novel "Henga, el cazador") ...
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Release Date:

19 August 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

He was a powerful warrior from the future, trapped in a prehistoric land, battling for the survival of his people.

Plot:

Yor, an extremely blond prehistoric warrior, comes to question his origins, particularly with regard to a mysterious medallion he wears...

Plot Keywords:

Medallion | Dinosaur | Skeleton | Archery | Timebomb

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Reb Brown	...	Yor
Corinne Clery	...	Ka-Laa (as Corinne Cléry)
Luciano Pigozzi	...	Pag (as Alan Collins)
Carole André	...	Ena
John Steiner	...	Overlord
Ayshe Gul	...	Rea of the Sand-People
Aytekin Akkaya	...	Leader of the Sand-People
Marina Rocchi	...	Tarita
Sergio Nicolai	...	Kay
Ludovico Della Jojo
Adrian Akdemir
Herent Akdemir
Ali Selgur
Zeynep Selgur
Henk Akin
Zenne Poksuz
Nurdan Asar
Nilgun Bubikoglu
Tevfik Sen
Yasemin Celenk
Levent Çakir
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yadigar Ejder		(as Yadigar Ajder)
Nick Alexander	...	Blond rebel who helps Pag and Ka-Laa (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Paul Costello	...	Blind Man (uncredited)
Larry Dolgin	...	Kai (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Edward Mannix	...	Pag (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Nello Pazzafini	...	Tribe Elder (uncredited)
Gregory Snegoff	...	Yor (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Robert Spafford	...	Tribe Elder (voice: English version) (uncredited)
Susan Spafford	...	Kalaa (voice: English version) (uncredited)

Directed by
Antonio Margheriti		(as Anthony M. Dawson)

Writing credits
Ray Collins		(graphic novel "Henga, el cazador") &
Juan Zanotto		(graphic novel "Henga, el cazador")
Robert D. Bailey		(screenplay) &
Antonio Margheriti		(screenplay) (as Anthony M. Dawson)

Produced by
Sedat Akdemir	....	associate producer
Michele Marsala	....	producer
Ugor Terzioglu	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Guido De Angelis
Maurizio De Angelis
John Scott

Cinematography by
Marcello Masciocchi

Film Editing by
Alberto Moriani
Giorgio Serrallonga		(as Jorge Serrallonga)

Art Direction by
Walter Patriarca

Costume Design by
Enrico Luzzi

Makeup Department
Mario Scutti	....	makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ignazio Dolce	....	assistant director

Special Effects by
Antonella Margheriti	....	special effects
Antonio Margheriti	....	special effects
Edoardo Margheriti	....	special effects

Stunts
Arnaldo Dell'Acqua	....	stunt coordinator (as Aldo Dell'Acqua)
Massimo Pittarello	....	stunt double
Goffredo Unger	....	stunt coordinator

Production Companies

• Kodiak Films
• Les Films du Diamant
• Radiotelevisione Italiana
• Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1983) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Radiotelevisione Italiana (1982) (Italy) (TV)
• Roadshow Home Video (????) (Australia) (VHS)
• Top Tape (????) (Brazil) (VHS)
• Vestron Video International (1984) (Belgium) (video)

Also Known As:

Yor (Turkey: Turkish title) (UK) (video title)
The World of Yor (International: English title) (literal title)
Yor, le chasseur du futur (France)
Yor, the Hunter from the Future (USA)

Runtime:

USA:88 min | 98 min (director's cut)

Country:

Italy | France | Turkey

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:PG | UK:15 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Turkey

Company:

Kodiak Films

Trivia:

The costumes worn by Overlord and his guards were left over from L'umanoide (1979) which director Antonio Margheriti did the special effects for.

Goofs:

Continuity: The character of Ena has a mole on one cheek. For a couple shots in the cave, the mole disappears.

Quotes:

[tending the fire after Yor and Roa have gone off together]
Ka-Laa: I'll go look for them. The meat is burning.
Pag: It's your jealousy that's burning. Among our people, a man can have many wives, so why can't Yor have two?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in An Enraged New World (2002)

Never elect a man called "Overlord" as your leader. It's only asking for trouble

The first thing that needs to be said about this movie, is something that should, and shall, be said about all Reb Brown movies. REB BROWN RUNS LIKE A GIRL. There, I am glad I have got that out of the way. This is something that is apparent from the word go in this movie. Yor dramatically enters, and proceeds to skip across the desert, arm flailing about, and generally he is looking like he has never ran across rough terrain before. I sure this wasn't the intention. I'm sure, that the intention was for Yor to come across as quite adept and at home in this barren landscape. Equipped with nothing more than an axe, a loincloth and a fantastic theme tune, I sure he was supposed to appear to be some kind of natural hunter, at one with his surroundings and senses. But unfortunately, as I have said before, REB BROWN RUNS LIKE A GIRL.

That said, everybody should be like Yor. Everybody should have their own them tune. A theme tune that not only can inspire you to achieve great things in your life, but can also inspire those around you to become better people, and put their absolute trust in you. Yor's theme tune is great. It does all that a personal theme tune should do. It spontaneously burst into play whenever he does something slightly random, like killing a giant bat and using it as a hang glider, or performing fantastic trapeze stunts with an ageing, fat caveman who has man-boobs. But more about those incidents later.

Yor is a hunter. Quite what he hunts is a mystery to me. With this movie apparently set in Pre-historic times, surely everybody is a hunter, therefore making the term 'hunter' meaningless. Nonetheless, yor is a hunter. In this, his first and only movie, he quickly befriends the saggy old man, Pac, and a very clean cave woman called Kala. Together, they travel through prehistoric lands, accidentally destroying every single tribe, village or civillisation that they happen to come across. I mean all. Sorry to give that one away, but seriously. Yor is the cause of the destruction of no less than five tribes of people. Sometimes intensional, sometimes purely by accident. He is one of those people that you really would try your best to divert from your village. He is however, quite adept at killing mutated paper-mache dinosaurs. I say mutated, because they are quite simply like no dinosaurs I have ever seen, and react like no creatures I have ever heard of. The first being a cross between a stegosaurus and a triceretops, a tristegoceretops if you will. But after killing it, he does what every hunter would do, drinks it's blood, but as he so wisely puts it, "drinking the blood of your enemy makes you stronger". Then there is the giant bat. The most useful creature in his entire world. Not only does it fly past at just the right time, but this creature conveniently goes into instant rigour Mortis, even before it hits the ground. This allows Yor to use the said bat as a hang glider to fly into a cave, rescue Kala, and you guessed it, entirely wipe out the tribe that kidnapped her. Fantastic stuff.

This is a very interesting world, it has to be said.There are a few things that can be learnt from this movie. the first being you can make absolutely anything out of straw. Straw seems to be the most versatile substance in the entire world. Pac's bow and arrows are made from it, villages are entirely made from it, they even sail a boat made from straw. Which bring me to my next learning point, if you are planning to sail to a place called 'The island of Storms', don't do it in a straw boat. That really is just asking for trouble.

But it is at the island of storms that the movie takes an unexpected twist (at least it would be if the blurb on the back of the video box din't tell you the entire plot of the movie). The movie gets invaded by a completely different movie altogether. But not just any movie, it gets invaded by a cheap remake of Star Wars. Led by the 'Overlord' who is a dead ringer for the Emperor, and his team of robots, who are dead ringers for Darth Vader, they capture Yor and demand to take over the movie. Despite futile efforts to resist, Yor is eventually forced to submit to there demands and pick up his blaster rifle to continue the battle. Something which he learns to use confidently in a very short space of time. It is a skill he uses efficiently in his other movie, Space MUtiny, where he also RUNS LIKE A GIRL, SCREAMS LIKE A GIRL and generally acts ALL GIRLIE LIKE.