Hawk the Slayer( 1980)

TV-MAFantasyAdventure

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Two brothers locked in deadly combat till the end of time!

Overview

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

Jack Palance
Voltan
John Terry
Hawk
Bernard Bresslaw
Gort, the Giant
Ray Charleson
Crow
Peter O'Farrell
Baldin
William Morgan Sheppard
Ranulf
Patricia Quinn
Sorceress
Cheryl Campbell
Sister Monica
Annette Crosbie
Abbess
Catriona MacColl
Eliane
Shane Briant
Drogo
Harry Andrews
High Abbot
Roy Kinnear
Innkeeper
Patrick Magee
Priest
Ferdy Mayne
Old Man
Graham Stark
Sparrow
Christopher Benjamin
Fitzwalter
Derrick O'Connor
Ralf
Warren Clarke
Scar
Declan Mulholland
Sped
Peter Benson
Black Wizard
Maurice Colbourne
Axe Man 1
Barry Stokes
Axe Man 2
Anthony Milner
Ferret
John J. Carney
Soldier
Robert Putt
1st Rough in Tavern
Mark Cooper
2nd Rough in Tavern
Stephen Rayne
Brother Peter
Ken Parry
Thomas
Lindsey Brook
Little Nun
Eddie Stacey
Chak
Jo England
1st Nun
Frankie Cosgrave
2nd Nun
Melissa Wiltsie
3rd Nun
Michael Crane
Drago Man
Ron Tarr
Blacksmith
Robert Rietti
Narrator (uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Fri 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 wre...