Dar, is the son of a king, who's hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he's the ability to communicate with the animals, which leads him on his quest for revenge against his father's killers.
Practical Effects
Real animals, real chaos. That tiger did not read the script.
Costume
Loincloth durability under duress deserves its own Oscar category.
Director
Don Coscarelli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The ferrets were so beloved that one stole focus in nearly every scene it could. The tiger, meanwhile, kept trying to eat Marc Singer.
Despite bombing in theaters, endless HBO replays made this a generation's accidental childhood obsession. It outgrossed its budget purely through confused insomniacs.
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