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Hawk the Slayer (1980)

27/08/1980 (GB)Fantasy, Adventure1h 33m
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Two brothers locked in deadly combat till the end of time!

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Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors: a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow and an elf with the fastest bow in the land; Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.

    Top Billed Cast

    1. Jack Palance

      Jack Palance

      Voltan

    2. John Terry

      John Terry

      Hawk

    3. Bernard Bresslaw

      Bernard Bresslaw

      Gort, the Giant

    4. Ray Charleson

      Crow

    5. Peter O'Farrell

      Peter O'Farrell

      Baldin

    6. William Morgan Sheppard

      William Morgan Sheppard

      Ranulf

    7. Patricia Quinn

      Patricia Quinn

      Sorceress

    8. Cheryl Campbell

      Cheryl Campbell

      Sister Monica

    9. Annette Crosbie

      Annette Crosbie

      Abbess

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    A review by CinemaSerf

    6.0
    Written by CinemaSerf on Jan 24, 2025

    There were an whole slew of these fantasy adventures made in the late 1970s but this one has to be the weakest, despite the presence of Jack Palance as the half decent baddie "Voltan". He's a nasty piece of work who has killed both his dad and his brother's girlfriend and so unsurprisingly, his sibling "Hawk" (John Terry) is out for blood. That's not going to be easy as he will be facing overwhelming odds and more than a bit of magic, but he manages to assemble a disparate band of fellow freedom fighters and armed with a fellow who can fire a crossbow as if it were a Gatling gun, sets about wr...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageEnglish

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    Keywords

    • dwarf
    • magic
    • sword
    • slavery
    • sorcery
    • crossbow
    • sorceress
    • sword and sorcery