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Box office. $14.1 million. Dragonslayer is a 1981 American dark fantasy film directed by Matthew Robbins from a screenplay he co-wrote with Hal Barwood. It stars Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, and Caitlin Clarke. It was a co-production between Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions, where Paramount handled North American ...
Mount Holyoke College (BA) Yale University (MFA) Occupation. Actress. Years active. 1978–2001. Caitlin Clarke (born Katherine Anne Clarke; [1] May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004) [2] was an American actress best known for her roles as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998–1999 Broadway musical Titanic.
Dragonslayer is a novel by Wayland Drew published in 1981. Plot summary. Dragonslayer is a novelization of the film Dragonslayer. [1] Reception
Best Foreign Language Film. Chariots of Fire. N/A. Mephisto. Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza), directed by Andrzej Wajda, Poland. Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Marianne and Juliane (Die Bleierne Zeit), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, W. Germany.
A motif from Wagner's Götterdämmerung, which was used prominently in Excalibur as the theme for the sword. Excalibur is a 1981 epic medieval fantasy film directed, cowritten and produced by John Boorman, that retells the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, based loosely on the 15th-century Arthurian romance Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory.
Pollyanna (1920) Peter Pan (1924) A Kiss for Cinderella (1925) Wizard of Oz (1925) The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) Alice in Wonderland (1933) Babes in Toyland (1934) The New Gulliver (1935) The Littlest Rebel (1935)
After a minor part in the film Dragonslayer (1981), [15] McDiarmid was cast by George Lucas in Return of the Jedi (1983) as the Emperor, the film's villain. [16] CNN named McDiarmid fourth in their top 10 British villains, stating it was his "darkly seductive voice" that "stole the show", and it was a "masterclass in ruling through fear and ...
The dragon is called Vermithrax Pejorative. As the dragon cannot speak or write, we have to assume that it's not her name, and must be the species designation. Of course, scientific taxonomy did not exist at that time. But the faux Latin is clever, "vermithrax" suggesting vermin and anthrax.