One of the less inspired career moves of Sean Connery, the film is perhaps the worst science fiction film of the Seventies, and perhaps the worst film of that decade famous for bad films. Burt Reynolds was originally scheduled to star in the film, but he withdrew due to illness. (Reynolds would at least have given the film some tongue in cheek quality.) Connery wanted to make sure he wasn’t typecast as James Bond. He succeeded. It is a tribute to his acting skills that this film did not destroy his career.
He Brought The Gift Of Death
[as someone is ripping themselves out of a plastic bag]
Morbid curiosity got the better of me as I watched this clip go from one level of hell to the next.
I thought that it was a Planned Parenthood commercial… the gift of death.
It is a tribute to his acting career that this film did not destroy his career. -DM
No kidding.
It was a quirky film to start with. The intention, poorly executed, was to show how the world descended into a form of madness. If these characters were real today and looked at the value in which life is held, one would be hard put to say that the film was not prescient.
Hmmm. Not James Bond, yet a vaguely similar sort of character–looks like he’s trying to save the world here too. I haven’t seen this whole movie, yet the trailer isn’t encouraging. Maybe this is why he did The Highlander some years later.
I thik my grandma used Zardoz on her stubborn laundry stains pretty much until she passed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR6M37EPouA
1974 Gene Roddenberry pilot. My sister thought it uproariously funny.
WK Aiken,
So it’s better than Fells Naptha, huh?
WK Aiken.
Thank you very much.
Now the trailer is making more sense. He, Connery’s character Zardoz, is fighting out of the plastic bag because he’s a stain fighter. A detergent. Now death to those horrible stains and that is the gift.
His outfit is suffering from ring around the collar but that’s the pitfall of a low budget infomercial. Possibly the very first one in history.
His costume reminds me of FBI agents at their friendly Christmas gatherings.