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Podcast: Around the World in 80s Movies
Episode: Conan the Barbarian (1982) | John Milius
Description: The setting of this fantasy-adventure based on Robert E. Howard's literary creations is the Hyborian Age, a fictional period invented by Howard, around 10,000 B.C. It is a time of magic, madmen, and mercenaries, and barbarians who kill before they end up killed. The film starts with Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) as a young lad in Cimmeria, orphaned at the hands of an evil snake cult-leader and a black-magic sorcerer named Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones), and becomes a slave. As he grows, he soon fights in an arena for sport and becomes very good at what he does. Soon, he es...