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Released
1982 · FILM

The Sword and the Sorcerer

“A kingdom ruled by evil. A princess enslaved by passion. A warrior driven by justice.”

Directed by
Albert Pyun
Written by
Tom Karnowski, John V Stuckmeyer
Runtime
100 min
ActionAdventureFantasy
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A mercenary armed with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage after being recruited to assist a princess in thwarting a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer's scheme to conquer the kingdom.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Marshall HarveyShot by Joseph MangineScored by David Whitaker

Box Office

1982 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$39.1M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$39.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Talon im Kampf gegen das Imperiumde
  • L'Épée sauvagefr
  • La spada a tre lameit

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