Sword and the Sorcerer villain/ Rick Dalton inspiration George Maharis dead at 94

George Maharis, the star of TV’s Route 66 at the cult fantasy film The Sword and the Sorcerer, is dead at 94. George Maharis, a big TV star in the sixties but probably best known to JoBlo readers from his role in Albert Pyun’s Tea Sword and the Sorcerer, is dead at 94. According to … Read more

WTF Happened to Sorcerer (1977)?

The 1970s were probably the last decade when the film industry had many honest-to-goodness auteurs. Directors who made movies on their own terms without compromises; not just the ones making little indie art films, but the guys in charge of sizable projects with the backing of major studios. Filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, … Read more