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Gor [VHS] (1988)

Urbano Barberini , Rebecca Ferratti , Fritz Kiersch  |  PG |  VHS Tape
2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)


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  • Actors: Urbano Barberini, Rebecca Ferratti, Jack Palance, Paul L. Smith, Oliver Reed
  • Directors: Fritz Kiersch
  • Writers: Harry Alan Towers, John Norman, Rick Marx
  • Producers: Avi Lerner, Harry Alan Towers
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
  • Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Number of tapes: 1
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: April 26, 1995
  • Run Time: 94 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 630116380X
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,425 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Professor John Cabot finds a portal to another dimension with the help of a magical ring. In this other world, he is no longer an intellectual - he's become a warrior known as Tarl Cabot. It's up to him to help a group of tyrannized citizens overthrow their ruthless leader by defeating his barbaric soldiers.


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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Embarrassing to Watch.... August 6, 2004
Format:VHS Tape
The major qualm that most people have with this movie is that it does not fit the vision of the Gor book series. So what. There are far better reasons why not to watch this movie, like Mulletboy.

Tarl, a nerdy college proffessor, gets transported to the world of Gor where he witnesses the hijacking of the homestone, and its defence by Talana, scantily clad Playboy model (ironically not the worst actor in this movie, actually she was better than most of the others). She tries to convince Tarl (what kind of name is Tarl, who on earth would name their son something so stupid?) Also with them is Mulletboy (guess why I call hiim that). Together they must go and rescue Talana's father and their heartstone.

The fight scenes in this movie were all identical. Swords clashed for about 2 seconds then someone got kneed in the gut. The one thing that can save a sword and sorcery film is good fight scenes and this movie does not deliver. Furthermore the action in this movie is minimal and far in between. Also, the plot is nonsensical and nothing at all is explained. Things are done for no apparent reason and other things that should probably happen don't.

The plot is so laughable. I can't quite convey why it is so corny in words, but take my word for it it isn't worth enduring.

The only saving grace of this movie is the eventual death of mullet boy.
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
The movie "Gor" is disappointing for a variety of reasons. First, it departs from the basic premise of the Gor books, male dominance and female submission. The depiction of Marlenus as an old man, and his wayward daughter Talena as a muscular and capable swordswoman, is probably the most incongruous part of the entire movie. In fact, this one depiction is so improbable that it is reminiscent of St. Joan d'Arc as a "battling, bodacious babe" in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure". Add to this mischaracterization a very skinny, hardly physically impressive "Tarl Cabot" (described elsewhere in the Gor series as "the greatest swordsman on Gor") and one has to conclude that the screenwriters adopted from the books only a few elements: 1) a barbarian world; 2) scantily clad (though not properly submissive) females; 3) some of the characters (but the only one I found believable per the Gorean series was that of Sorbus--who is set here in the desert, but was in reality a pirate captain of humid, tropical Port Kar, whom Cabot slew over a tavern maid when he arrived in Port Kar), and 4) swordplay. This attempt was highly disappointing, in terms of both masculine and feminine depictions. The movie's plot itself had nothing to do with Gor.

John Norman's world is unique to his own vision, and the stale and tacky devices of Hollywood's hack scriptwriters--most of whom are politically correct, and who think in terms of audience stereotypes--are hardly equal to creating even a shadow of the master's vision. I am holding out for a first-rate, Lord-of-the-Rings-type recreation of Gor by Hollywood, replete with Kurii, slave girls serving in slave strips and strings, and a cast of male characters true to Gorean type.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Format:VHS Tape
Having read the John Norman series, I would have hoped this movie would follow more closely to the orignal plot and details than it actually did. The delicate workings of Gorean society have been squelched and warped into a more typical fantasy setting, until they are no longer recognizable. While it has some merit, or maybe just sentimental value for fans of the original series, this movie version of Gor has lost the uniqueness present in the books.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Alternate Title: Planet of Stupid Headgear
That pretty well sums it up. Jack Palance must have been hungry when he got involved in these honkers.
Published on August 19, 2006 by Weesel
Horrid!
I can't begin to imagine why John Norman didn't sue the movie studios when this travesty of his creation was unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Read more
Published on March 6, 2006 by Tyche
Super B ... won't there ever be a DVD
Who cares that this is a major B movie with a budget of a small college class ... Tarl Cabot is hot. Read more
Published on October 27, 2003 by Dale
I should have been arrested!
I should have been arrested for spending while stupid; bad costuming, bad sets, cheap film. Did they just drive out to Baja(or wherever) and film in the sand on the weekend? Read more
Published on April 3, 2002 by Jessie R. Smith Jr.
Great Fantasy B Movie
For a cheesy fantasy B movie, this one is great! I haven't read the books, so I can't make a comparison to them, but, compared to other B-movies, this one's a classic. Read more
Published on April 17, 2001 by Corey Asbreuk
Excruciating
Not even Oliver Reed can save this dog. It's one of those films you watch (if you can sit through it) with a vague sense of wonder -- wondering how it could possibly be so bad.
Published on June 23, 2000 by Sean T. Carnathan
the movie is one of the worst ever made
if you want to see a bad movies there's not to much out there worst then this. If ever someone did an auther injustes they did on this one. all i can say is watch it. Read more
Published on June 13, 1999
Shoddy rip-off of the book series
The book series by John Norman made much use of sexual and erotic images of muscular dominating men and subserviant women - the kind of world most men long for. Read more
Published on May 21, 1999
Gor story re-arranged to fit Sword & Sorcery label
The Gor stories were never literary classics, but they were never meant to be. Something else they were not meant to be were Sword and Sorcery as they are depicted in this film. Read more
Published on May 10, 1999 by Rogan Muldoon
the films, like the books, they are really bad
altough the director has done a lot with the poooor material, he still diesn't manage to salvage what is esentially a sick and barbaric ideal, attractive to a few deranged... Read more
Published on April 9, 1999
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