Roger Corman butchered it. Mystery Science Theater 3000 mocked it. But now, a 4K, original-language restoration of Aleksandr Ptushko’s 1956 epic Ilya Muromets aka The Sword and the Dragon reveals it as a formerly lost cult classic, a terrific exemplar of handmade epic filmmaking.
Fight on! Deaf Crocodile Films has revealed a glorious re-release trailer for a vintage medieval epic called The Sword and the Dragon, originally known as