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Red Sonja (1985) -- The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power...
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Director:
Writers:
Robert E. Howard (character)
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Release Date:
3 July 1985 (USA) more
Tagline:
A woman and a warrior that became a legend.
Plot:
The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills... more | add synopsis
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1 win & 2 nominations more
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(66 articles)
From the A-Team to the Z-list
 (From The Guardian - TV News. 1 January 2010, 4:05 PM, PST)

From the A-Team to the Z-list
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Actually, As Much As People Hate This, It Still Runs Like Conan 3. more (67 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Arnold Schwarzenegger ... Kalidor

Brigitte Nielsen ... Red Sonja
Sandahl Bergman ... Queen Gedren
Paul L. Smith ... Falkon (as Paul Smith)
Ernie Reyes Jr. ... Prince Tarn
Ronald Lacey ... Ikol
Pat Roach ... Brytag
Terry Richards ... Djart
Janet Agren ... Varna, Red Sonja's Sister
Donna Osterbuhr ... Kendra the High Priestess

Lara Lamberti ... Gedren's Handmaid (as Lara Naszinsky)
Hans Meyer ... Red Sonja's Father
Francesca Romana Coluzzi ... Red Sonja's Mother
Stefano Maria Mioni ... Barlok, Red Sonja's Brother (as Stafano Mioni)
Tutte Lemkow ... Wizard
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Runtime:
89 min
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Color (Technicolor) | Color (Metrocolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally to have reprised the role of Conan in this film, as the Red Sonja character was a spinoff of the original Conan novels. Ultimately, a new character was created who was essentially Conan in everything but name. more
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Continuity: When the surviving girl approaches to the rope over the canyon, there are two meshes. She clutches one mesh and slides down the rope. When her pursuers get to the rope, there are three or four meshes. more
Quotes:
Red Sonja: What happened?
Falkon: What happened? Queen Gedren attacked us is what happened.
Red Sonja: Gedren? Queen Gedren?
Falkon: That's right. She knocked down half the city with her new weapon and demanded our surrender.
Prince Tarn: My army ran away. Do they want to live forever? I refused to surrender.
Falkon: So she knocked down the other half.
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Who is the star of this movie? Arnold Schwarzenegger or Brigitte Nielsen?
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5 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
Actually, As Much As People Hate This, It Still Runs Like Conan 3., 22 April 2007
4/10
Author: Fiendish_Dramaturgy from .: Fiendish Writings in the Dark :.

It is sad that Schwarzenegger was the best thing about this production, especially considering the fact that he had not yet come into his own, and was still as stiff as cardboard in his dialog delivery.

Actually, this isn't as bad as some critics say, but it isn't good, either. It IS amusing, and DOES play like a poor country cousin of the Conan line, making it a conflicted, uneven, poor work. And speaking of poor, the quality is terrible, due to the era in which this was filmed, but that is not the only reason.

The story herein is inferior, even to the Conan line, but moreover, it loses itself in the "Red Sonja must be dominated by big strong Schwarzenegger" ploy, and entirely forgets its purpose, if it ever had one.

It's entertaining, but in a low-budget, guilty-pleasure "B" kind of way.

It rates a 4.2/10 from...

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