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Bookmark this pageFire and Ice (1982)
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
More cut-ups from Bakshi's animated cut-outs. Here his collaborator is Frank Frazetta, dean of Sword'n'Sorcery illustration - and with predictable results. It's all Chas Atlas heroes slicing one another to bits in order to win ladies with more curves than a bunch of grapes. Complete with sub-Wagnerian score and just a hint of subliminal racism - the disposable 'subhumans' are dusky chaps, the hero an Aryan blond - it may well satisfy a low IQ, pubescent (probably) male Iron Maiden fan, but the rest of us are poorly served.Author: GD
Cast & crew
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Producer: Ralph Bakshi, Frank Frazetta
Cast: Randy Norton, Cynthia Leake, Steve Sandor, Sean Hannon, Leo Gordon full cast
Genre(s): Fantasy
Duration: 82 mins
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