Dragonslayer


Dragonslayer is a 1981 American fantasy film directed by Matthew Robbins, from a screenplay he cowrote with Hal Barwood. It stars Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam and Caitlin Clarke. The story, set in a fictional medieval kingdom, follows a young wizard who experiences danger and opposition as he attempts to defeat a dragon.

A sixthcentury postRoman kingdom called Urland is being terrorized by a 400yearold dragon named Vermithrax Pejorative. To appease the dragon, King Casiodorus Peter Eyre offers it virgin girls selected by lottery twice a year. An expedition led by a young man called Valerian Clarke seeks the last sorcerer, Ulrich of Craggenmoor Richardson, for help. A brutish centurion from Urland named Tyrian Hallam, who has followed the expedition, intimidates the wizard. Ulrich invites Tyrian to stab him to prove his magical powers. Tyrian does so and Ulrich dies instantly, to the horror of his young apprentice Galen Bradwarden MacNicol and his elderly servant Hodge Sydney Bromley. Hodge cremates Ulrichs body and places the ashes in a leather pouch, informing Galen that Ulrich wanted his ashes spread over a lake of burning water.Galen inherits the wizards magical amulet, and takes it upon himself to journey to Urland. On the way, he discovers Valerian is really a young woman, who disguised herself to avoid being selected in the lottery. In an effort to discourage the expedition, Tyrian kills Hodge before dying, he hands Galen the pouch and dies with the words Burning water... on his lips. ........

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