| GENERAL
DATA |
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| other
titles |
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Fugitive
from the Empire
The Archer
The Archer and the Sorceress
L'archer et la sorcière
Gudinnen og Bueskytteren
De Schutter en de Heks
Der Zauberbogen
El Arquero de fuego
Torans hämnd
Toranin kosto |
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| catch
phrases |
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• A
young warrior braves a world of sorcery to claim his throne
• Un homme seul et son arc magique façe à la
barbarie
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Die Kraft des Bogens vernichtet selbst die dunkelsten Mächte
der Finsternis
• Das grosse Fantasy-Abenteuer
• Faszinierender Ausflug in das Reich der Phantasie !
• Die Abenteuer eines jungen Helden, der weder Tod noch Teufel, Grauen
oder mystische Bedrohung fürchtet ! |
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| release
category |
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TV movie/big-screen
movie/TV series |
| genre |
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Fantasy/action/adventure
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| length |
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8373
feet 11 frames (reels)
96 minutes
93 minutes 2 seconds (UK, big screen version)
93 minutes (Germany, big screen version)
88 minutes 8 seconds (UK, video version)
89 minutes (Germany, TV version)
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certificate |
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USA:
1981, not rated
UK: September 24, 1981, uncut, rated 'A', big screen version
Germany: December 17, 1981, uncut, FSK ab 12,
feiertagsfrei, big screen version
UK: April 21, 1986, uncut, rated 'PG', video version
USA: 1999, not rated, video version
Sweden: rated '15', video version |
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| release
dates |
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USA - April 12, 1981 - TV
• Germany - December 17, 1981 - big screen
• Germany - November 22, 1985 - TV, channel ARD, German TV
premiere
• The Netherlands - 1988 - TV, channel Filmnet 24
• Germany - May 11, 1990 - TV, channel RTL, RTL TV premiere |
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| PRODUCTION |
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of production |
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USA |
| production |
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Mad
Dog Productions,
Universal TV |
| executive
producer |
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Stephen
P. Caldwell,
Nicholas Corea |
| screenplay |
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Nicholas
Corea |
| music |
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Ian
Underwood |
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| art
direction |
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Lloyd
S. Papez, set decoration:
Richard Friedman |
| costume
design |
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Vittorio
Nino Novarese |
| special
effects |
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Bill
Schirmer |
| action
scenes |
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stunt
coordinator: Tommy
J. Huff |
| cinematography |
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John
McPherson, A.S.C. |
| distribution |
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National
Broadcasting Company NBC - 1981, USA, original airing on TV
Cinema International Corp. CIC UK - 1981, UK,
film version
Cinema International Corp. CIC Germany - 1981, Germany, film
version
CIC Video - 1986, UK, video version
MCA/Universal Home Video - 1998, USA, video version |
| filming
location |
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USA |
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| DIRECTOR |
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Nicholas
Corea |
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| CAST |
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Lane
Caudell Ulrich Matthes* (Toran of Malveel)
Belinda Bauer Alexandra Lange* (Estra)
Victor Campos Manfred Lehmann* (Slant)
George Innes Herbert Stass* (Mak, Archer)
Marc Alaimo Peter Matic* (Sandros)
Alan Rich Klaus Miedel* (Paeter)
John Hancock (Baldar, World Chief)
Priscilla Pointer (Sorceress of Zeer)
George Kennedy Joachim Cadebach* (King
Brakus of Malveel, Thoran's father)
Robert Feero Lothar Blumhagen* (Captain Ria)
Richard Dix Michael Chevalier* (Rak)
Ivan J. Rado (Vors)
Sharon Barr (Mandras, Horse Chief)
Tony Swartz (Riis)
Richard Moll (Bovum, Ferryman)
Andrew Bloch (Rega)
Fred Pinkard (Merchant)
Dee Croxton (Woman Scholar)
Chao Li Chi (Astrologer)
Skip Riley (2nd Drakian Trooper)
Ivan Saric (1st Drakian Trooper)
Larry Douglas (Lazar-Sa, Magician)
Tom Willett (Elk Man)
* German dubbing voices
German synchronisation: Berliner Synchron Wenzel Lüdecke |
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Kabir plays
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one of the lead roles.
Christian Rode is the dubbing voice for Kabir
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to be confused with |
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...Albert
Pyun's fantasy film The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982, starring
Lee Horsley) or John C. Broderick's fantasy film The Warrior
and the Sorceress (1984,
starring David Carradine). |
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| reviews |
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• Lexikon
des internationalen Films
- "Abenteuerliche Fantasy-Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Gut und Böse
im Comic-Stil, fragwürdig in ihrer Glorifizierung der Gewalt."
• Kölnische
Rundschau
- "Der gute alte Kintopp feiert fröhliche Urständ."
• Gong-Lexikon Filme
- "Halbmythologisch und comicnah."
• TV-Movie, German TV magazine
- "Abenteuer nach Schema F(antasy), aber sehr unterhaltsam. - ...ohne auffällige
Sinn-Substanz, aber zum Glück auch ohne das Fantasy-übliche, aufgeblasene
Pathos daher - und es ist einfach, flüssig und recht spannend in Szene gesetzt." |
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| INFORMATION -
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• Filming
was in 1980 on location in the US.
• Unusual: The Archer.Fugitive from
the Empire -first- premiered on US TV as
a television movie, -then-
it was shown in cinemas in Europe, because:
• The
Archer.Fugitive from the Empire is the pilot of an American
TV series which was developed following the success of the
Star
Wars films
(from 1977). Many elements of the more traditional sword-and-sorcery
films were to be combined with at that time newly developed
fantasy elements.
• According to several American sources, the short-lived (and expensive)
TV
series
is
said
to
have
been
broadcast after April
in the Summer of 1981 on American TV. However, it was almost immediately cancelled.
• The TV series has not been broadcast outside the US.
• In late 1981 (the year of the American TV broadcast premiere)
The
Archer
was released in European cinemas (check release dates above).
• Allegedly the first major film to have a 100% synthesized score. |
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| INFORMATION -
GENERAL INFORMATION |
• Among
the animals which were used for some scenes in the film
are a bear, several cougars, dogs, falcons, horses, and
even a chimp.
• The
name Baldar is derived from Old Norse
mythology.
Baldar was
the son of Odin, he was known as The Beautiful. He was
the deity who reigned over sunshine and summer, and his
chief
festival
was Midsummer. |
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| INFORMATION -
PEOPLE |
• Lane
Caudell has named his son, born in
1982, Toran, after his character in The Archer. Toran
Caudell is also an actor and a musician, like his father.
• Lane
Caudell is from North Carolina, USA,
and was about 28 years old when The Archer.Fugitive
from the Empire was filmed.
• From 1974 Lane Caudell was one
of the three lead singers of the pop group Skyband,
making music in the style of the Bee Gees.
However, only one - self-labled - LP was produced.
• Lane Caudell later recorded
his own solo album called Hanging On
A Star,
named
after
a movie
by the same title (1978) he starred in as a charismatic
lead singer of a rockgroup.
• Although Lane Caudell's film career spans only about
six
years,
he
is quite famous because of a pin up poster
from 1983. He poses bare-chested in jeans as a cowboy, holding a saddle in his
hand.
• Belinda
Bauer was born in 1951 in Australia.
• Her lead role in The Archer.Fugitive
from the Empire is one of Belinda
Bauer's roles at the start of her
career.
• Belinda Bauer has the part of Michael Nouri's wife
in
the
hit
film
Flashdance,
starring Jennifer Beals, in 1983.
• Marc
Alaimo was born in 1942 in Wisconsin, USA.
• Marc Alaimo, nicknamed The
Neck because of his prominent neck, is well-known for
his roles in many films of the Star Trek series.
• Marc Alaimo has often appeared in TV
series in which Kabir also was
a
guest
star, for instance in THE MASTER (1984)
and in KNIGHT RIDER (1985).
However, Marc did not appear alongside Kabir in
the episodes of the many TV series he filmed.
• New York born character actress Priscilla
Pointer is the mother of actress Amy
Irving.
• Priscilla Pointer plays the mother of her daughter
Amy Irving in the cult movie Carrie (1976)
and
the mother of
Victoria
Principal (Pamela) in Dallas (1978).
• New Yorker Victor Campos has parts in many successful
TV series, ranging from High Chaparral and Bonanza to Columbo,
Kojak
and
ER.
• George
Kennedy also stars alongside Kabir in
COUNTERFORCE (1987).
• George Kennedy was born in 1925 in New York City.
• George Kennedy has four adopted children.
• George Kennedy enlisted in the American army for many
years. He is a World War II veteran, as an officer he served under General George
S. Patton.
• George Kennedy worked in more than 200 TV and film productions.
• George Kennedy started out in TV westerns, by the end
of the Sixties he had a busy film career.
• His part in the western Cool Hand Luke (1967) earned George Kennedy an
Oscar™.
• Some of George Kennedy's film hits: the John Wayne western
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965, starring James
Stewart) The Dirty Dozen (1967), Airport (1970), Earthquake (1974), The Naked
Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988, co-star Leslie Nielsen), and Naked
Gun sequels. |
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