The Sword and the Sorcerer
1982, R, 100 min.
D: Albert Pyun; with Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller, Simon McCorkindale, George Maharis, Richard Moll.

The Alamo’s first annual Sword and Sandal Film Festival features live wrestling onstage before every epic. Thursday, with The Sword and the Sorcerer, there will be sumo wrestling; Friday, with Conan the Barbarian, there will be Greco-Roman wrestling; and Saturday, with Excalibur, there will be fencing. The winner of each best-two-out-of-three-falls bout will win an evening of pleasure (i.e., date) with one of the fair Alamo maidens. Come in gladiator gear and admission is half-price. Advance tickets available.

Lots of clanging swords and half-dressed maidens – Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News loves this movie.

This article appears in December 31 • 1999.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.