Tarl Cabot has always believed himself to be a citizen of Earth. Summary The first novel in the long-running sword-and-planet series set on a Counter-Earth, where warriors rise above the chaos of bondage and brutality. The movies were made by going over the heads of the censors.Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy My attorney finessed his way around Ballantine's rights department and contacted the legal department at Random House.

He said that Ballantine had to be circumvented in order to make the movie: īallantine Books refused to do movie tie-ins to either film they failed even to answer my letters. In a 2002 interview with online fanzine The Gorean Voice, John Norman recalled that Ballantine Books, holder of the rights to his novels, balked at the idea of publishing movie tie-in books. The film has been the target of criticism for its overt sexual themes, and its portrayal of women as slaves to men. Gor was widely panned upon its release (and subsequently remembered) for its poor production value and camp.

Cast Ĭannon Films had initially planned to release the film in September of 1987, but the theatrical release was cancelled. return to Ko-ro-ba, where, after Cabot and Talena admit their love for one another, Cabot accidentally activates the Home Stone, and is returned to Earth. Cabot leads a group of rebels in an escape effort, whereupon Cabot is able to kill Sarm, rescue Talena and her father, and reacquire the Home Stone. Cabot travels with Talena on a rescue mission to Sarm's lands, where they are captured. Cabot learns that Talena's father, the King, has been captured by Sarm, along with the Home Stone. He awakens to find himself being nursed back to health by Talena ( Rebecca Ferratti), a scantily clad barbarian princess of the Kingdom of Ko-ro-ba. After inadvertently killing Sarm's own son during the encounter, he is left for dead in the desert. Cabot too is abruptly attacked by Sarm's warriors. Sarm's forces are invading neighboring settlements in an effort to retrieve the Home Stone, a mystical object that creates pathways between Gor and distant Earth.

After his arrival, Cabot encounters a village being attacked by the army of the tyrannical priest-king Sarm. There was a sequel to the film, Outlaw of Gor (1989).Īfter being snubbed before a weekend-getaway by his teaching assistant, socially awkward professor of physics Tarl Cabot accidentally unlocks the magical properties of a ring which transports him to the planet Gor. The series was written by philosophy professor and author John Frederick Lange Jr.

It was loosely based on the 1966 novel Tarnsman of Gor, the first in the Gor series of sword and planet novels. Gor is a 1987 science fiction fantasy film.

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