Ironmaster (Italian: La guerra del ferro: Ironmaster) is a 1983 film directed by Umberto Lenzi.

Production

After the surprise box office hit of Jean-Jacques Annaud's film Quest for Fire (1981) in Italy, several film productions followed mimicking the film's style. These included films like Lucio Fulci's Conquest (1983) and Umberto Lenzi's Ironmaster.

Ironmaster was filmed on location at Custer State Park in South Dakota with interiors shot at RPA-Elios Studios in Rome.

Release

Ironmaster was released in Italy on 10 March 1983. The film was released on Blu-ray on 23 January 2017 in North America by Code Red and on 10 April 2017 in the United Kingdom by 88 Films.

Reception

According to Michael Klossner, author of Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television, while Ironmaster received "few and very bad notices [and is] simple, only modestly ambitious and has its share of flaws … it's hard not to like a film which shows intelligent, articulate prehistoric people making discoveries, facing moral issues and showing capacity for great evil and finally for good." Hal Erickson wrote in AllMovie that "Seldom has there been a more predictable 98 minutes' worth of Sword and Sorcery, but that doesn't mean it isn't enjoyable."

Footnotes

Sources

  • Erickson, Hal. . AllMovie. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012.
  • Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476662916.
  • Klossner, Michael (2006). Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television: 581 Dramas, Comedies and Documentaries, 1905-2004. McFarland. ISBN 0786422157.
  • Thrower, Stephen (2002) [May 1999]. Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci (2nd ed.). England, United Kingdom: Fab Press (published December 2002). ISBN 0-9529260-6-7.

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