B004EPYZT4

031398145561

1982

1982-05-14

129

2h 9min

Awards, 2 wins & 9 nominations

John Milius

Robert E. Howard, John Milius, Oliver Stone

Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow

D. Constantine Conte, Dino De Laurentiis, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Buzz Feitshans, Edward R. Pressman, Edward Summer

Basil Poledouris

Duke Callaghan

Carroll Timothy O Meara

Ron Cobb

Pier Luigi Basile, Veljko Despotovic, Benjamín Fernández

Emilio Ardura, Giorgio Postiglione

John Bloomfield

Colin Arthur, Carlo De Marchis, Paquita Núñez, Pamela Peitzman, José Antonio Sánchez, Ángel Luis De Diego, Ken Horn, Paquita Trench

Pepe Escriva, Vicente Escrivá hijo

Víctor Albarrán, Roberto Cirla, José Luis García Berlanga, Terry Leonard, José López Rodero, Kuki López Rodero, Massimo Trabaloo

Adolfo Cofiño, Tomas Lorenzo, Julián Martín, Julián Mateos, Giorgio Palomba, George Peppiatt, Aldo Puccini, Syd Regan, William Stout, Graham Sumner, Peter Voysey, Antonio Paramo Campos, Renato Casaro, Gerardo Diéguez, José García Donado, Vicente Jesús, Jacinto Soria, Jose Velazquez

Wayne Artman, Bub Asman, Tom Beckert, Fred J. Brown, Shelley Brown, James A. Corbett, Juno J. Ellis, Erick Feitshans, Michael Jiron, Margie O Malley, Michele Sharp, Caryl Wickman, Jim Willis

Nick Allder, Antonio Balandín, Richard Conway, George Gibbs, Ron Hone, John McGoldrick, Roger Nichols, Antonio Parra, Giuseppe Tortora, Barry Whitrod, Antonio Baquero, Antonio Bueno, Jose A. Cordero, Juan Antonio Gómez, Manolo Gómez

Dennis Bartlett, James Hagedorn, Katherine Kean, Peter Kuran, Len Morganti, Emilio Ruiz del Río, Susan Turner, Frank Van der Veer, Jim Danforth

José Luis Ayestarán, Bettina Brenner, Tony Brubaker, Jim Burk, José Luis Chinchilla, Ricardo Cruz, Ángel Gómez Fernández, Corrie Jansen, Terry Leonard, Juan Maján, Larry Randles, Ben Scott, John-Clay Scott, Walter Scott, Bob Terhune, Terry Leonard, Juan Diego Montoya, William Smith, Juan Manuel Torres Gómez

José Luis Aguilar, John Cabrera, José Luis Criado, Antonio Fernández Santamaría, Julián Fernández, Rafael García Martos, Salvador Gómez Calle, Gerhard Hentschel, Julio Leyva, Julio Madurga, Ricardo Navarrete, Bob Penn, Herbert Smith, Tote Trenas, George Whitear, Micky Wilson, Marcelino Luna, Gilbert Taylor

Rosa García

Franco Antonelli, Martín Díaz, María Eugenia Escrivá, Andrés Fernández, Stephen Jackson, Michael Jones

Rafaela Andújar, Donah Bassett, Conrad M. Gonzalez, Carl Graham, Christopher Holmes, Darren T. Holmes, Frank E. Jimenez, Patricia Lee, María Luisa Pino, Peck Prior, Richard Ritchie, Fred Stafford

Carl Graham, Juan Clemente Prosper

Greig McRitchie, Basil Poledouris, Robert Randles, Steven Scott Smalley, Jason E. Squire, Franklin Jones Jr., Emil Richards, Lucie Svehlova

Yvonne Axworthy, Francesca DeLaurentiis

Emilio Marquerie, Fernando Marquerie, Manuel Paredes Murillo, Alfonso Paredes, Carlos Ponce de León

Miguel Ángel Alonso, Francisco Ardura, Barbara Back, Ludy Camacho, Roberto Cirla, L. Sprague De Camp, Dino De Laurentiis, Vues de Vestel Tiva, Santiago DeBenito, Francisco García, Brian Gibbs, Martha Gibbs, Michael B. Gladych, Humberto Gurza, Miguel Gurza, Beth Hickman, Manuel Jimenez, Steven Kilroy, Mareva Mapuhi, Margarita McDermott, Trilby Norton, Fred Rexer, Jody Samson, Saralo, Anne Strick, John Trehy, Debbie Van Hoek, Kiyoshi Yamasaki, Angelica De Leon

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Universal Pictures, Dino De Laurentiis Company, Pressman Film

USA, Mexico

English

R

6.9

152067

43

Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American epic sword and sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by Milius and Oliver Stone. Based on Robert E. Howard s Conan, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones and tells the story of a barbarian warrior named Conan (Schwarzenegger) who seeks vengeance for the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of a snake cult.

Ideas for a Conan film were proposed as early as 1970; executive producer Edward R. Pressman and associate producer Edward Summer began a concerted effort to get the film made in 1975. It took them two years to obtain the film rights, after which they recruited Schwarzenegger for the lead role and Stone to draft a script. Pressman lacked capital for the endeavor. In 1979, after having his proposals for investments rejected by the major studios, he sold the project to Dino De Laurentiis; his daughter Raffaella produced the film. Milius was appointed as director and he rewrote Stone s script. The final screenplay integrated scenes from Howard s stories and from the Japanese films Seven Samurai (1954) and Kwaidan (1965). Filming took place in Spain over five months in the regions around Madrid and the province of Almería. The sets, designed by Ron Cobb, were based on Dark Age cultures and Frank Frazetta s paintings of Conan. Milius eschewed optical effects, preferring to realize his ideas with mechanical constructs and optical illusions. Schwarzenegger performed most of his own stunts, and two types of sword, costing $10,000 each, were forged for his character. The editing process took over a year, and several violent scenes were cut out.

Conan the Barbarian was distributed by Universal Pictures in North America and 20th Century Fox in other territories. It premiered on March 16, 1982 in Spain and May 14, 1982 in North America. Upon release, the film received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mainly positive for its action sequences, production design, directing, visual style, and effects, but negatively received for its violent content and screenwriting, as well as some substandard performances. Despite this, the film became a commercial success for its backers, grossing between $68.9 million and $79.1 million at box offices around the world against its budget of only $20 million.

The film earned Schwarzenegger worldwide recognition. Conan the Barbarian has been frequently released on home video, the sales of which had increased the film s gross to more than $300 million by 2007. In the years following its release, it became a cult film, and its success spawned a sequel, titled Conan the Destroyer (1984). It ultimately led to the production of a 2011 reboot of the same name.

$20,000,000 (estimated)

$9,603,139

$39,565,475

$68,851,475

Evil sorcerer,cult,warlord,sword and sorcery,female frontal nudity