THE CONQUEROR OF THE ORIENT was one of the slew of unwatched
movies in my collection. It is one of the fifty movies in the giant pile of DVD
fun from Mill Creek called the Warriors 50 Movie Pack Collection which means
its one of a couple of dozen films I have every intention of eventually seeing.
One day. So, I pulled this one randomly out of the pack and what I got was
sadly below par.
The film tells of the fall
of tyrant Dakkar who is played by Jess Franco regular Paul Muller. He desires a
woman named Fatima who despises him but he forces the young beauty into a
relationship with the threat of eventual marriage. She escapes into the
countryside in a way that is edited out of this 74 minute version of the film
and is rescued from her doomed rowboat by farmboy Nadir. Nadir is played by the not very
oriental looking Rik Battaglia but since no one in the film seems to actually
be portraying someone of their actual race I guess it hardly matters. He falls
in love with the young lady just before she is cruelly snatched back by Dakkar's men
causing Nadir to vow he will reclaim her from the palace. After he fails
miserably and only survives his trip to the big city through Fatima 's
intervention our hero is told by his elderly parental figure that Nadir is
actually the son of the King that Dakkar deposed and murdered. And so, the stage is
set for the rightful King to rise up, build an army and destroy the usurper to
claim his birthright and his darling beloved. Trust me -you've seen it all before.
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