The Influence of a Soviet film on Conan the Barbarian director John Milius
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
There were many films that influenced director John Milius on the making of his 1982 epic Conan the Barbarian. The films of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa and the 1958 Richard Fleischer film The Vikings, which starred the legendary Kirk Douglas. It should be noted that it would be Fleischer that would be hand picked by producer Dino De Laurentiis to dir…
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