Sword And The Dragon (1960)
Also known as Ilya Muromets
1960 · Feature film · 82 min · dir. Aleksandr Ptushko
Eye-Filling Spectacle! Man Against Monsters! The Largest Cast Ever Used in a Motion Picture! A cast of 106,000! 11,000 horses!
- Adventure
- Fantasy
Synopsis
Paralyzed since birth, Ilya can only watch helplessly as his village is plundered by barbarians. But when a mysterious traveler arrives with a magic elixir that restores him to full health, Ilya begins an adventure to protect the village and the royal family from harm.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Aleksandr Ptushko
- Writer
- Mikhail Kochnev
- Composer
- Igor Morozov
- Cinematography
- Fyodor Provorov
- Studio
- Mosfilm
- Released
- 1956-09-09
- Original title
- Илья Муромец
- Running time
- 82 minutes
Cast & crew
Aleksandr Ptushko Director
Boris Andreyev
Ninel Myshkova
Shukur Burkhanov
Andrei Abrikosov- Georgi Dyomin
Sergey Stolyarov
Sergei Martinson
Iya Arepina
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · To Think They Were Serious When They Made This · Dodsworth the Cat · 2025-11-12
What's the source that Mike Wallace is in this debacle? This was dubbed in Los Angeles; Wallace was in New York at the time. A May 1960 edition of Variety confirms Marvin Miller is heard as Ilya but he is the only person mentioned in the story. Frankly, the narrator sounds more like Michael Rye. I give three stars for camp factor and overly dramatic acting and music. This was apparently the most expensive film made in the U.S.S.R. at the time, but it's filled with every hokey cliche you could possibly expect (publicity at the time claimed it was Yugoslavian because, you know, those…
That dosen't sound like Mike Wallace · torgman · 2013-11-27
I'm sure CBS was paying him good enough money as a broadcaster that he didn't need to do voice-overs for bad Russian movies.
