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After driven out of their native land, Sangraal (Peter McCoy) and the
rest of his tribe wander the countryside to search for a new home ... and
somehow get into a fight between two tribes and in the process save Aki
(Yvonne Fraschetti) and her compatriots from certain death by the hands of
evil king Nanuk's (Mario Novelli) men. Aki just happens to be the daughter
of chieftain Belam (Luciano Rossi), and out of gratitude, he invites
Sangraal and company to join forces, to which Sangraal happily agrees.
Unfortunately though, Nanuk is the follower of particularly evil goddess
Rani (Xiomara Rodriguez), and she's not at all fond of Nanuk's failure and
insists he has revenge. Nanuk and his men soon capture Sangraal, tie him
to a cross, and then slaughter his and Belam's tribes right before his
very eyes. Only Aki manages to escape, and she also manages to save
Sangraal - and the two of them are soon helped by oriental Won (Hal
Yamanouchi), who nurses Sangraal back to health. Sangraal though is
grief-stricken over the death of his wife (Margareta Rance), so he makes
Won take him to magician Rudak (Massimo Pittarello), who is said to be
able to bring the dead back to life - much to the dismay of Aki, who has
long fallen in love with Sangraal, but she helps him get to Rudak
nevertheless. After a perilous journey, Rudak confesses he can't bring
back the death, but he tells Sangraal about the hiding place of a
super-weapon, which he will only be able to wield if he fights for right
and justice though. But while Sangraal is off fetching this ultimate
weapon (a pretty big crossbow by the way), Nanuk's men murder Won and
kidnap Aki, then want to prepare a trap for Sangraal. But Sangraal uses
his big crossbow to hit Nanuk's army on the head with it and then fights
it out with Nanuk himself and kills him in the process. When he wants to
free Aki thereafter, Rani appears and threatens him, and now he fires his
crossbow and kills the goddess - before riding off with Aki into a better
future. One of an endless number of Italian barbarian movies
made in the early 1980's to cash in on the success of Conan
the Barbarian, this low budget effort certainly has little to set
it apart from a few too many similar movie, neither in a positive nor a
negative way ... but if you love the genre for all the wrong reasons as
much as I do, you will most certainly find yourself at least somehow
entertained nevertheless, as this movie has all the right ingredients:
senseless violence, gratuitous topless nudity, wooden acting, stilted
dialogue, ... It's pretty much the kind of film you'll watch with your
mates and even more beers - you'll laugh at its shortcomings, but the next
day, when the clouds have settled, mainly remember what a good time you
had.
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