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Warrior and the Sorceress is a fantasy version of the classic Japanese film Yojimbo, which was later remade as A Fistful Of Dollars. Basically, a stranger with no name (David Carradine) comes into town amongst rival factions fighting over a well, the only source of water. He plays both sides of the fence, yada yada yada....you've all seen it a zillion times.

What makes this different, besides the setting, is the fantasy/medieval weirdness factor, including the sorceress (Maria Socas, looking fetching as she does the entire film sans a top), a telepathic (and incredibly phony) monitor lizard, and, to top it all off, a dance by a lady with four (count 'em, four!) honkers. And, I have to admit, her prosthetics seemed to me incredibly well done. Maybe that's just me.

The swordplay was quite good, and the acting (though not spectacular), was entirely adequate. It seems like everyone involved had a great time, and so did I.

For your rental (or purchase) dollar, you could do a whole lot worse...

David Carradine really had it for the type of movie you can see here. Being a warrior and having a mentality for it. This is losely connected to Death Stalker (at least that's what the box set this is included suggests), but other than a similar themed fantasy and a lot of nudity, I couldn't really tell.

To be fair I liked David here more than in his dream project (also Bruce Lees pet project he unfortunately never got to realize). Then again, that doesn't say much and this still is not really reaching any heights ... it does what it does and it gives you what you should expect - nothing more though

One of the dirt-worst films I've seen in a long time. I thought this would be cheesy, tacky fun, but it was just bland, nonsensical and totally boring.

It avoids a 1 star rating, which I reserve for a special type of ineptitude, since it at least seems to know what it wants to be: a cliched fantasy adventure. And thus it shoe-horns in all the requisite elements, but with no care for storytelling, character development or drama.

The plot is that there are two warring clans fighting over a well. Into this situation walks (at a glacial pace that is supposed to convey quiet strength but just looks hammy) mercenary warrior the Dark One, played by Carradine. Battles ensue. At some point he discovers a bare-breasted woman in a dungeon who seems to have some importance but it isn't explained. Carradine's allegiance flip-flops as we cycle through the interminable action with no narrative thread in sight. An old man is introduced. Who is he? Who is anybody in this film? What are their motivations? Nobody in this film matters.

The only thing I enjoyed was William Marin as the grotesque, fat ruler Bal Caz. He played the role like Christopher Biggins would, coming off camp and pantomime-ish, but at least it was kind of fun. The character has a strange lizard-like companion and the pair are obviously a rip-off of Jabba the Hutt and Salacious Crumb. This film tries to steal liberally from the Star Wars trilogy, but falls flat on its face with its poor costuming and lack of vibrancy. It came out in 1984, but its washed-out palette and cheap sets make it look at least 10 years older.

Overall, this is a miserable waste of time. A dull and dingy effort. Avoid!

Its the 80's and Sword and Sorcery without CGI is the game. David Carradine wanders into town with a massive sword and runs through the script of Yojimbo, then he runs through a series of henchman in some poorly executed fight scenes.

There is a town and a well that provides all the water. Two hopeless chieftains battle for control until Carradine plays both sides.

Budget must have been very tight, most of the savings made in the Women's clothing budgets - nudity a standard.

The film is just lacking in almost all areas, but at least it gets on with it in a breezy 80 minutes and therefore carries enough dumb fun to completely outweigh its welcome.

This movie was not great by any means. The plot was acceptable, and sometimes comical. The characters were fairly one-dimensional and relatively easy to predict. The movie was more for laughs than anything else, as there are quite a number of random things. If you ever watch the movie, be on the lookout for: a talking lizard, pointless nudity, and David Carradine pulling down his eye socket (which was completely bizarre). This movie was not the best 'worst' movie ever, but it was fairly decent for mindless entertainment. The swordplay was tolerable too, but the sets were awful. I enjoyed it though, as David Carradine is just so cool in his own right.

This old gem is great fun to watch. It's not going to win any awards or anything, but it's very entertaining for a low budget fantasy movie. David Carradine basically plays his character Cain from Kung Fu, meaning he barely talks and does his little facial expressions.

It's like a combination of Kung Fu and Conan the Barbarian. Some of things in this movie just crack me up, like the almost slow motion fighting, to an animatronic lizard pet. There are also breasts all over the place, which is nice.

First thing I noticed at the beginning of the movie was that it's a rip off of the Clint Eastwood movie "A fist full of Dollars". They used the same basic plot and dropped it into a Sword & Sorcerer movie.

Despite it's admitted disadvantages, it's still a fun movie to watch. You will laugh at parts that aren't suppose to be funny because they are corny, or whatever, but that's part of the fun. Carradine does his Cain-type fighting, meaning that it's almost slow motion, which cracks me up. Sometimes the bad guy will react before Carradine hits him, haha.

Honestly though, it's worth a watch. Check it out.

This movie is very very dumb. But lots of people are killed and there is lots and lots and lots of astonishingly pointless nudity and sex. None of the nude women are in the least bit famous, but there are naked. That's the only reason to rent this movie, but is that such a bad reason?

Would you believe it, a sword and sorcery adaption of Akira Kurosawa's classic, Yojimbo?! Yes indeed and it's actually rather entertaining stuff to boot in fact.

David Carradine stars as a mysterious, monosyllabic, sword wielding wanderer (try repeating that when you're drunk!) who arrives in a town run by two warring factions and who subsequently proceeds to counter sell his fighting prowess to each side in turn, whilst simultaneously playing them both off against one another.

Containing some nicely implemented sword play (choreographed by fellow star in this and always fun to watch, Anthony De Longis), a fair quota of breasts including one woman who bears four, yes FOUR of them(!) and even a rubbery tentacled monster, this proves to be a highly satisfying watch if your in the mood for the like.

Whenever I get into a discussion with someone about the worst movie ever, this turkey comes to mind. Every woman in this movie is nude but it's beyond gratuitous...there's no point. This isn't a feminist diatribe...I live with an artist who does figure work. It is the outcry of an affronted sensibility. This movie simply fails in everything that makes a movie worth seeing. The acting is atrocious, the story is nonexistent, the sets are cheesy and the plot convoluted and uninteresting.

David Carradine should be ashamed of himself for giving this offal an excuse for being made. It's been 15 years since I saw this movie yet it lingers in my mind like the taste of spoiled milk glibly drunk in the middle of the night right out of the carton. If there were a negative score, I would have marked it lower.

So, it's not the latest Merchant-Ivory production. Let's face it, those blokes could certainly learn a thing or two from the Roger Corman school of filmmaking.

"THE WARRIOR AND THE SORCERESS" has a lot going for it, and bears the distinction of being the only film in motion picture history to ever combine all of the following elements* into a neat 77 minute package AND still manage to pack the kids' lunches, run for Governor of Illinois and pick up last week's dry cleaning all at the same time. What a trooper!

*"The following elements"... -- David Carradine -- Tons of naked women -- Sword fights (inept and otherwise) -- Maria Socas running around topless eighty percent of the time -- Cues from James Horner's "HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP" score -- Tons of breasts... the friendly kind -- A fat man and his angry lizard (that astounds like no other animatronic, yet immobile angry lizard ever could!) -- A chick with four... count 'em... four tits (beat that Verhoeven!) -- And, of course... David Carradine.

What more could you ask for? A blender? This film deserves it's own category. Peplum Film Noir.

If you want to send love this Christmas, give 'em "THE WARRIOR AND THE SORCERESS". They'll devour it in 77 minutes flat... and, love you for it, if time permits.

The warrior and the sorceress Is a kind of slope, we don't see anymore.

It is that kind of low budget Fantasy where most of money went to the main actor, David Carradine who is a known actor.

And the effects are cheap and that the decor is cheap, And all the sets would look home, in an amuse Park Riding.

But what the movie has is cheese and breast.

David Carradine is doing his very best cowboy in personation, to make some life into this movie, Which will maybe work for you, but it did not for me.

It's just a very repetitive movie, where it feels like it Just repeats itself, but it doesn't have the charisma or the energy, to make it entertaining.

I was not bored while watching it, but I was not entertained. It is just passable.

But it has a woman with four boobs. So it cannot be entirely bad. Hope you will enjoy it.

Who doesn't love sword and sorcery flicks? Who doesn't love 'Yojimbo?' Why not combine the two? We get beautiful filming locations, luscious and detailed sets and costume design (mostly), swell hair and makeup work, fine use of lighting, and excellent stunts, practical effects, and fight choreography. We get dark and fanciful imagery, flavorful original music (if sometimes borrowing a bit from other fantasy fare) - and the classic story of a mercenary who plays two rival villains against one another. We also get a LOT of female nudity, and while I've no objection to the inclusion in and of itself, the sheer abundance here is rather dubious, especially since the costume design for women tends to simply be "none of the above." The pacing is soft at times, and some instances of delivery or acting are quizzical; some inclusions are overly cartoonish, and please watch for the moment when hero Kain, beaten to a pulp one moment, has no marks left on him later in the same evening. Sometimes the writing and/or direction of scenes or story beats just kind of amounts to "okay, good enough," and the saga at large feels a smidgen simplified.

'The warrior and the sorceress' gives us what we want out of the genre. It's not anything special, nor anything that demands viewership, and there are absolutely some facets that don't come off well or raise a skeptical eyebrow - but we get what we came for. Everyone seems to have had a good time making it, though, especially David Carradine and Anthony De Longis; I feel bad for María Socas, as her participation feels a tad exploitative, but the least that can be said is that she was committed. It's nothing one needs to go out of their way to see, but for something light and uninvolved, it's decent enough to check out on a quiet day. Sometimes that's all we need out of a movie, and this ably serves its purpose. Take that as you will. Now, about that promotional artwork...

I watched The Warrior and the Sorceress because of David Carradine (Kung Fu!) - and I gotta confess, I am guilty: I enjoyed the show. Of course, the movie is very stupid and cheesy, but somehow still entertaining (and sometimes really funny despite intention of the writer/director). The story got undeniable some similarities with Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo or Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars. Anyway, if you sometimes just can't resist the urge to dive deep into trash, you may try this one.

Right, well as much as I enjoy sword and fantasy, and having played roleplaying games for more than 35 years, then I actually never stumbled upon the 1984 fantasy movie titled "The Warrior and the Sorceress" before now late in 2022.

Of course I opted to sit down and watch it, but I have to admit that I wasn't harboring much of any expectations, given the fact that the movie was starring David Carradine, whom isn't exactly one of my favorite actors, nor did he really have that whole fantasy-vibe to him.

The storyline in "The Warrior and the Sorceress" is pretty straight forward, although somewhat too simplistic and mundane to really support 81 minutes of runtime. So writers John C. Broderick and William Stout weren't really churning out anything grand here, especially when taking into consideration that they were basing it on "Yojimbo" by writers Ryûzô Kikushima and Hideo Oguni. You could essentially leave the room with the movie still running, come back at a later point, and still be up to date with what was going on in the movie. Yeah, the narrative was that slow and with nothing overly thrilling happening, you were in no risk of missing out on anything if blinking a bit too long.

The cast ensemble in "The Warrior and the Sorceress" was pretty bland. I only recognized David Carradine in the movie, and he wasn't really cut out to be the leading actor in a fantasy movie. So I wasn't convinced here.

As for the movie's props, sets, wardrobe, etc., then it is pretty low key and low budget. Even the stones in the sets were painstakingly obvious made from styrofoam or something. The lack of proper effects, costumes, props, etc. Definitely took away from the whole fantasy-feel that a movie such as "The Warrior and the Sorceress" should be having to be convicing.

The movie's cover is ridiculous to look at; especially since David Carrdine is made out to look way more muscular than he actually was. And the was just something comical and goofy about the cover, but hey it was definitely in the spirit of the 1980s fantasy movies.

My rating of director John C. Broderick's 1984 movie "The Warrior and the Sorceress" lands on a three out of ten stars.

The Eighties. VHS Hell. Somebody made the big buck with exploiting certain structures of genre cinema and within a year the b-industry was at hand providing two shelves of rip-offs for your local mom-and-pop rental limbo.

Not only the usual suspects of quickie celluloid theft - Italy and Asia - worked that way. Also the smelly smelly underbelly of Hollywood grinded full throttle when it came to feeding the Realm of Videotica.

1984. Conan The Barbarian by right wing muscle wiener John Milius had just swept the theaters twice with it's fascist only the strong and Austrian survive message. About 30 flicks - one trashier than the other - followed. Most from Italia, all great. Basta.

David Carradine (actually something like the 70s + 80s Messiah of filmic crap-a-rola) just like his dad acting where the money is, travelled to Argentina that year. Probably he made 8 films or something. The one I just watched is The Warrior And The Sorceress done under the tutelage of smut entrepreneurs Alex Sessa and Hector Olivera experienced in producing mainly barbarian movies and Women In Prison howlers line Amazons or Barbarian Queen.

Doctor Carradine, known to no idea movie-going cattle of todays day and age only as the Bill to be killed, stars as a lone sword master in a post-nuke and/or medieval world (the filmmakers somehow could not decide) out to play off two rivaling clan chiefs against each other to get money and their water reserves.

Well, what sounds like the umpteenth take on Kurosawa's Yojimbo/Leone's Fistful Of Dollars just in a different setting is actually the umpteenth take on Kurosawa's Yojimbo/Leone's Fistful Of Dollars just in a different setting.

It's fun though. Carradine looks his usual stoned and not interested in the film and has to endure many an unconvincingly choreographed sword fight. The sorceress - imprisoned by a lizard faced Luke Askew (maybe still known to some from Easy Rider) to forge a magic sword for goals not mentioned - shows her boobs most of the time. Other women get drowned and beaten while Dave-O and his hosts eat chicken and fruit. Them crazy South American lady lovers...

Among the monsters battled are a room full of plush tentacles and a fat Buddha looking heel with a talking (kinda) lizard that looks like something an intern of Jim Henson's would have been fired for even during the pre-Muppets days.

Having watched the film in my mother lingo of German as Der Krieger und die Hexe the dubbing once more had me jumping. Especially the fat guy who has a squealing voice I remember from my childhood calling Bud Spencer "Brother Snailshit" in the mighty movie and political allegory (possibly? Yes, yes !!!) Banana Joe.

When films bring back that kind of feel good memories they win in my book.

However, that's not to say that this routine sword 'n' sandal fantasy adventure doesn't have a brilliant touch or two. As has been said numerous times before, it's essentially another reworking of the time-honoured premise of "Yojimbo", as a mythical lone warrior, Kain (David Carradine) does his best to manipulate two warring factions in a small isolated community who each want control of the only water well. One of them is led by Zeg (the amusingly cast Luke Askew), the other by Bal Caz (Guillermo Marin). The sorceress of the title is Naja, played by the super sexy Maria Socas, who plays her role almost completely topless, certain to guarantee enthusiastic approval by trash fans everywhere. The movie really is rather thinly written (by director John Broderick and William Stout, the latter being an artist & production designer who's worked on genre efforts like "Conan the Barbarian" and "The Return of the Living Dead"), and it may leave one caring little about characters or what happens to them. Carradine is sometimes a hoot, but he often looks here like he can't wait to cash his paycheck. So it's up to the supporting players to try to give this thing a shot in the arm. Askew, Marin, and Armando Capo as the inhuman Burgo the Slaver are all reasonably entertaining antagonists. Production design, location shooting, and costumes are effective, but the action runs hot and cold; the sword fights aren't the most exciting one will ever see. R. Christopher Biggs supplies the makeup effects on the non-human characters as well as one funky little lizard thing. The music is credited to Luis Maria Serra, but any fan of previous Roger Corman productions is sure to recognize certain cues from the James Horner score for "Humanoids from the Deep". The one thing that really makes "The Warrior and the Sorceress" worthwhile is fairly brief, but impressive: the makeup effects on a luscious exotic dancer (played by Cecilia Narova) who happens to have four breasts, outdoing the memorable three breasted hooker from "Total Recall". Overall this is pretty forgettable once it's over, but it provides adequate enough entertainment for a trim 82 minute running time. Undemanding fans of sleazy low budget fantasy films should be satisfied. Six out of 10.

(1984) The Warrior And The Princess SCIENCE-FICTION/ ACTION

Again, another movie with a familiar plot device derived from what people saw from Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece "Yojimbo". Including along with this remake is "Last Man Standing", "War" and the best of the bunch "A Fistful of Dollars" except this one has an apocalypse desert setting two warring groups clashing over a water well with Kain (David Carradine). Watching this film is like something what low budget king Roger Cormon (who ironically is "uncredited" as co-executive producer) would do because of the nudity and the fake sword fighting! One of the contradictions the movie has made was the fact that, although Carradine possessed a sword that could slice down an anvil, that upon the star using it later on through the movie, this very same powerful sword suddenly acted like any other sword without any explanation, which went from slicing the other swords in half to not doing anything at all. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. At least some of the nude scenes looked real.