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Summary: The Magic Sword
Review: A kid film i was 3 when it came out triped me out when i saw it at 6 now some 30+ years later super cheese flick!!
but still a classic the ghosts in the cave scared the hell out of me, this movie had its place on the local Chicago TV show famely classics in the 60's ranked right up with Sinbad, James mason jurney to the center of the earth (GATORS WITH HORNS AND FINS GLUED ON THEM, GOT TO LOVE THAT STUFF!!) and Jason and the arganots with the fighting skeltons.
It was a sad sight thow to see the great sherlock holmes Basil rathbone in such a B movie but hey!! i guess it puts butter on the bread!! I give this 4 stars due to remembering the good times growing up and how simple things seemed great and nothing was taken to far off the rateing scale for kids to watch.
I watched it a year ago and to tell you the truth the ghost are still creepy!!
Good famely popcorn flick worth $5.00 on DVD!
Rating:
Summary: A real winner
Review: Ah yes, i first saw the magic sword when i was a kid, and even
then it struck me as quite a adventure of the sword/fantasy kind.
With knights, dragons, witches and so much more, this movie became a jewel. Now that its available on video, its still produces tingling effects as after all these years its still
quite entertaining and still produces that smile at the end.
Enjoy.
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Summary: Cheesy rescue the princess from the sorcerer's dragon movie
Review: Apparently Ray Harryhausen's big success with "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" inspired all sorts of sword and sorcery epics (filmed in Cinemascope). Case in point would be this 1962 film, "The Magic Sword," a three-word title that makes the S&S genre perfectly clear. The film is directed and co-written by Bert I. Gordon, who gave us "The Cyclops," "The Amazing Colossal Man," and "Earth vs. the Spider," and actually ends up being one of his better efforts, helped, no doubt, by the money put into the film for color and special effects. But keep in mind that the rest of those films are really bad. "The Magic Sword" also stars the aging Basil Rathbone as the sorcerer, Lodac, and the young Gary Lockwood of "2001" fame as the hero, Sir George. Rathbone does well when he appears on screens, but the rest of the cast is not up to his level and the special effects are average at best (although the dragon at the end is the best of the bunch).The story is by the numbers for this genre. Sir George has been raised by a witch named Sybil (Estelle Windwood), and has used her magic to spy on the beautiful Princess Helene (Anne Helm). She ends up being abducted by Lodac who plans to feed her to the aforementioned dragon. When the King (Merritt Stone) does the old bit about who ever rescues his daughter gets her hand in marriage, Sir George is off on his quest to the evil sorcerer's castle. Our hero is aided and abetted by six knights that he restores from being petrified. This is good because they have to face seven curses from Lodac and having seven knights makes it sound fair but we all know this is going to get down to just--ALL TOGETHER NOW--Sir George and the Dragon. Along the way Gordon to throw all sorts of witches, ogres, helpful little people, and the like at our band of heroes. I am sorry I missed it when "The Magic Sword" played on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" because this film is a natural for that venue. Still, this cheesy film can be enjoyed as such without the silhouetted talking heads.
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Summary: Cheesy rescue the princess from the sorcerer's dragon movie
Review: Apparently Ray Harryhausen's big success with "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" inspired all sorts of sword and sorcery epics (filmed in Cinemascope). Case in point would be this 1962 film, "The Magic Sword," a three-word title that makes the S&S genre perfectly clear. The film is directed and co-written by Bert I. Gordon, who gave us "The Cyclops," "The Amazing Colossal Man," and "Earth vs. the Spider," and actually ends up being one of his better efforts, helped, no doubt, by the money put into the film for color and special effects. But keep in mind that the rest of those films are really bad. "The Magic Sword" also stars the aging Basil Rathbone as the sorcerer, Lodac, and the young Gary Lockwood of "2001" fame as the hero, Sir George. Rathbone does well when he appears on screens, but the rest of the cast is not up to his level and the special effects are average at best (although the dragon at the end is the best of the bunch). The story is by the numbers for this genre. Sir George has been raised by a witch named Sybil (Estelle Windwood), and has used her magic to spy on the beautiful Princess Helene (Anne Helm). She ends up being abducted by Lodac who plans to feed her to the aforementioned dragon. When the King (Merritt Stone) does the old bit about who ever rescues his daughter gets her hand in marriage, Sir George is off on his quest to the evil sorcerer's castle. Our hero is aided and abetted by six knights that he restores from being petrified. This is good because they have to face seven curses from Lodac and having seven knights makes it sound fair but we all know this is going to get down to just--ALL TOGETHER NOW--Sir George and the Dragon. Along the way Gordon to throw all sorts of witches, ogres, helpful little people, and the like at our band of heroes. I am sorry I missed it when "The Magic Sword" played on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" because this film is a natural for that venue. Still, this cheesy film can be enjoyed as such without the silhouetted talking heads.
Rating:
Summary: Cheesy rescue the princess from the sorcerer's dragon movie
Review: Apparently Ray Harryhausen's big success with "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" inspired all sorts of sword and sorcery epics (filmed in Cinemascope). Case in point would be this 1962 film, "The Magic Sword," a three-word title that makes the S&S genre perfectly clear. The film is directed and co-written by Bert I. Gordon, who gave us "The Cyclops," "The Amazing Colossal Man," and "Earth vs. the Spider," and actually ends up being one of his better efforts, helped, no doubt, by the money put into the film for color and special effects. But keep in mind that the rest of those films are really bad. "The Magic Sword" also stars the aging Basil Rathbone as the sorcerer, Lodac, and the young Gary Lockwood of "2001" fame as the hero, Sir George. Rathbone does well when he appears on screens, but the rest of the cast is not up to his level and the special effects are average at best (although the dragon at the end is the best of the bunch). The story is by the numbers for this genre. Sir George has been raised by a witch named Sybil (Estelle Windwood), and has used her magic to spy on the beautiful Princess Helene (Anne Helm). She ends up being abducted by Lodac who plans to feed her to the aforementioned dragon. When the King (Merritt Stone) does the old bit about who ever rescues his daughter gets her hand in marriage, Sir George is off on his quest to the evil sorcerer's castle. Our hero is aided and abetted by six knights that he restores from being petrified. This is good because they have to face seven curses from Lodac and having seven knights makes it sound fair but we all know this is going to get down to just (all together now) Sir George and the Dragon. Along the way Gordon to throw all sorts of witches, ogres, helpful little people, and the like at our band of heroes. I am sorry I missed it when "The Magic Sword" played on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" because this film is a natural for that venue. Still, this cheesy film can be enjoyed as such without the silhouetted talking heads.
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Summary: this was an excellent knight on white horse hero movie
Review: As far as im concern this movie for its time rivals any of todays movies of the same type.The special effects were great,the hero,villain and damsel in distress was great.This movie in my opinion is agreat classic.I enjoy these types of movies.
Rating:
Summary: Impressive, Most Impressive
Review: I agree with the first fellow's review. Don't expect today's technology to be intertwined in this classic. It is a fabuluos movie on the path of "Jason and the Argonauts" and "The seven adventures of Sinbad". The aspect of the heros "magical knights" and their demise due to the various pitfalls between the orgin and the destination is wonderful, only to give the viewer a delightful surprise about those rascals at the end. Given it's time period when it was made, no doubt it is truely a piece an adventurer would want to have in his or her collection.
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Summary: Brings back memories
Review: I am so glad I found this video. I've been trying to find out the title to this movie for a long time and when I found out that they still sell the video, I jumped on it right away. I first saw this movie when I was a kid. I've always remembered the knights that came back to life to help the hero and I always found that fascinating. It's a kid's film and if your kid isn't too spoiled by the high-tech special effects of today, then I think they will like this movie.
Rating:
Summary: Brings back memories
Review: I enjoyed this moviw trwemendously when I was a child. The fantasy of the movie at the time was very exciting. The idea that a night could have magic used to help him find himself, was a good pretense for a movie. I still remember this movie today as if I'd just finished watching it.
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Summary: THE MAGIC SWORD
Review: I enjoyed this moviw trwemendously when I was a child. The fantasy of the movie at the time was very exciting. The idea that a night could have magic used to help him find himself, was a good pretense for a movie. I still remember this movie today as if I'd just finished watching it.
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