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    Hawk the Slayer (1980)

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    Lord Grade’s ITC gave director Terry Marcel a modest budget of less than a million pounds to throw his hat into the rampant sword-and-sorcery genre of the early 1980s.

    Marcel engaged a young square-jawed American unknown called John Terry to play the hero, Hawk, and the ferocious Jack Palance as Hawk’s wicked warlord brother Voltan and then spent six weeks lugging a small team of actors and film technicians back and forth between the black lakes and knotty woodlands of old England and a fake forest at Pinewood Studios.

    Hawk is given ‘the magic mind sword’ by his dying father (Ferdy Mayne) with the words “the ancient power must never fall into the hands of the devil’s agents”. He then gathers an intrepid band of helpers and sets off in pursuit of his evil brother.

    Voltan
    Jack Palance
    Hawk
    John Terry
    Gort the Giant
    Bernard Bresslaw
    Crow the Elf
    Ray Charleson
    Baldin the Dwarf
    Peter O’Farrell
    Ranulf
    William Morgan Sheppard
    Sorceress
    Patricia Quinn
    Sister Monica
    Cheryl Campbell
    Abbess
    Annette Crosbie
    Eliane
    Catriona MacColl
    Drogo
    Shane Briant
    High Abbot
    Harry Andrews
    Fitzwalter
    Christopher Benjamin
    Innkeeper
    Roy Kinnear
    Priest
    Patrick Magee
    Father of Hawk and Voltan
    Ferdy Mayne
    Sparrow
    Graham Stark
    Scar
    Warren Clarke
    Sped
    Declan Mulholland
    Ralf
    Derrick O’Connor
    Black Wizard
    Peter Benson
    Ferret
    Anthony Milner
    Brother Peter
    Stephen Rayne
    Thomas
    Ken Parry
    Little Nun
    Lindsey Brook
    Chak
    Eddie Stacey
    Narrator
    Robert Rietty

    Director
    Terry Marcel

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