Review: “Red Sonja”: Terribly entertaining

With Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Directed by Richard Fleischer

This comic film adaptation is considered the low and end point of the sword and sorcery boom from 1981 to 1985. The Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis stirred the Europudding, the score had to be composed by his compatriot Ennio Morricone, and the Dane Brigitte Nielsen owed the cinema debut to her lover Sylvester Stallone, who confidently recommended her as the lead actress. Schwarzenegger played Conan for the third time –…

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