• Director(s)

    Natuk Baytan

  • Production Year

    1975

  • Genre(s)

    Action, Adventure

  • Approx. running minutes

    88m

  • Cast

    Steve Arkin, Barbara Lake, Charles Garret

Film

The Sword And The Claw

strong violence, injury detail, brief sexual threat

THE SWORD AND THE CLAW is a Turkish historical action adventure film, from 1975, in which a prince raised by lions returns to avenge his father’s murder. …

THE SWORD AND THE CLAW is a Turkish historical action adventure film, from 1975, in which a prince raised by lions returns to avenge his father’s murder.

violence
There is strong violence in stylised fighting scenes, which includes slashings and stabbings with swords in undetailed fashion, as well as dismemberment and the clawing of faces and bodies by a man with fantastically powerful hands.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man pins a woman to the ground and tears down the top of her dress to reveal cleavage which he nuzzles briefly before the assault is interrupted and curtailed.
injury detail
There is frequent sight of blood on faces and bodies in stylised fighting scenes, as well as of severed limbs and wounds in the aftermath of violent events. Acid is poured onto a man’s hands in undetailed fashion, leaving the flesh badly blistered and damaged.
There is moderate threat. There is moderate bad language (‘bitch’, ‘whore’, ‘slut’), as well as milder terms (‘bastard’).

  • Director(s)

    Natuk Baytan

  • Production Year

    1975

  • Genre(s)

    Action, Adventure

  • Approx. running minutes

    88m

  • Cast

    Steve Arkin, Barbara Lake, Charles Garret

One or more of the releases in this collection was cut.

strong violence, injury detail, brief sexual threat
Classified Date:
26/01/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
101 Films Limited
Cuts:
The work required a compulsory cut to a sequence of animal cruelty in which horses were made to fall in a dangerous manner. Cuts were made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines, policy and the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937, which is applied under the terms of the Video Recordings Act 1984.
violence
There is strong violence in stylised fighting scenes, which includes slashings and stabbings with swords in undetailed fashion, as well as dismemberment and the clawing of faces and bodies by a man with fantastically powerful hands.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man pins a woman to the ground and tears down the top of her dress to reveal cleavage which he nuzzles briefly before the assault is interrupted and curtailed.
injury detail
There is frequent sight of blood on faces and bodies in stylised fighting scenes, as well as of severed limbs and wounds in the aftermath of violent events. Acid is poured onto a man’s hands in undetailed fashion, leaving the flesh badly blistered and damaged.
There is moderate threat. There is moderate bad language (‘bitch’, ‘whore’, ‘slut’), as well as milder terms (‘bastard’).

  • Classified date

    26/01/2023

  • Language

    English