The Film Source Collection
1965 /100 mins / Color / Not Rated
Starring:
Cameron Mitchell, Elissa Pichelli
Luciano Pollentin, Fausto Tozzi
and Giacomo Rossi-Stuart
Directed by Mario Bava
Written
by: Mario Bava, Alberto Liberati
and Giorgio Simonelli
Music
by Marcello Giombini
Synopsis:
With
husband King Harald missing at sea and presumed dead, Queen Karin goes into
hiding with her young son Moki to escape being forced into marriage with Hagen,
a general of Herald's army and now a bloodthirsty pretender to the throne.
Wary of strangers, she turns a beggar away from her cottage, but upon hearing
her cries for help, the stranger returns and saves her from being assaulted
by two men-with two well-thrown knives! The blademaster Rurik, (Cameron Mitchell),
is allowed to stay and he takes the boy under his wing, teaching him the arts
of survival.
In time, he recognizes Karin as the Queen whom he raped years ago on her wedding
night in merciless retaliation for Hagen's murder of his wife and son. Realizing
that Moki might be his own son, Rurik now has a family to defend-and another
to avenge-as Hagen and his soldiers converge on their hiding place!
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