The Beastmaster

Name: The Beastmaster
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Action
Released: 1982-08-16
Duration: 1 h 58 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn, John Amos, Rod Loomis

Born with the courage of an eagle, the strength of a black tiger, and the power of a god.

The Beastmaster (1982)

Timing: 1:58 (118 min)

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Release date

1982-08-16

Country

United States

Production

Leisure Investment Company, Beastmaster NV, ECTA Filmproduktion

Genre

Fantasy, Adventure, Action

Budget

$8 000 000

Box office

$14 056 528

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Director

Don Coscarelli

Actors

Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn, John Amos, Rod Loomis, Ben Hammer, Ralph Strait, Billy Jayne, Janet Jones, Tony Epper
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Scenario

Don Coscarelli, Paul Pepperman

Producer

Sylvio Tabet, Paul Pepperman, Sylvio Tabet, Nader Atassi

Camera operator

John Alcott

Composer

Lee Holdridge

Artist

Conrad E. Angone

Audition

Joe Reich

Editing

Roy Watts
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Short description

Dar, the son of a king, is 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 has the ability to communicate with animals, which leads him on a quest for revenge against his father's killers.

What's left behind the scenes

Dar’s black tiger was actually an ordinary striped tiger painted black for filming. Every time the tiger drank water, the paint would run, and the stripes were clearly visible near its mouth in certain scenes.
Producer Dino de Laurentiis was so impressed with the film that he invited Don Coscarelli to direct his next project, "Conan the Destroyer" (1984). The director declined the flattering offer, finding the proposed script simply terrible.
The trained eagle often refused to fly when needed, and to get the necessary shots of the bird in flight, it was dropped from a hatch of a hot air balloon lifted into the air.
For safety reasons, the actor playing young Dar was prohibited from being on set at the same time as the tiger. A short stand-in wearing a special wig was used to film those scenes.
The animal trainer initially hired was fired during filming and replaced with another.
Director Don Coscarelli was a big fan of writer Andre Norton's work as a boy, and her novel "Lord of the Beasts" served as the basis for the film.
Eighteen-year-old Demi Moore, who had no prior acting experience, auditioned several times for the role of Kiri, Dar's friend. The director was very pleased with the results and was ready to offer her the role, but the producers preferred Tanya Roberts.
Despite not being a major box office hit, "Beastmaster" became one of the most popular and successful films in the history of cable television.
Don Coscarelli, the director, producer, and originator of "Beastmaster," sold all rights to the film and its characters. As a result, he had no involvement whatsoever in subsequent sequels or the television series, and received no income from them.