The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2001 film)

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a British film of 2001 directed by David Lister and starring Robert Davi and Kelly LeBrock.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Directed byDavid Lister[1]
Written by
Based onThe Sorcerer's Apprentice
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Produced byPeter H. Matthews, Elizabeth Matthews
StarringKelly LeBrock
Robert Davi[1]
CinematographyBuster Reynolds
Music byMark Thomas
Production
company
Peakviewing Productions[1]
Release date
2001[1]
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom[2]
LanguageEnglish

The film was made in South Africa but is set in England.

Outline

The wicked sorceress Morgana (Kelly LeBrock) plans to rule the world, but for fourteen hundred years all her efforts have failed. Once in every century, she tries to recover Fingall's magic staff and unite it with a magic stone in the possession of the wizard Merlin, a combination of devastating power. Merlin, now an elderly man living under the name of Milner (Robert Davi), still has the stone.[1][3]

Milner befriends a neighbour, a fourteen-year-old boy called Ben Clark (Byron Taylor), who has recently migrated from South Africa, and sees that he has the same scar as a bearer of Fingall's staff that he had known in the 6th century. Ben is fascinated by magic, and Milner begins to teach him to be a magician. The staff of Fingall is now on display in a museum of which Ben's father (Greg Melvill-Smith) is the curator. As Morgana enters the story, Ben has to make his own choice between good and evil.[1]

Cast
  • Kelly LeBrock as Morgana
  • Robert Davi as Milner
  • Byron Taylor as Ben Clark
  • Anne Power as Carol Clark
  • Greg Melvill-Smith as Mike Clark
  • Dale Cutts as Fingall
  • Gideon Emery as Sly
  • Martin Le Maitre as Filo
  • Clinton Dooley as Mark Evans
  • Roxanne Burger as Nicole
  • Terence Reis as First Knight
  • Lawrence Joffe as Second Knight
  • Sean Taylor as schoolteacher

Notes
  1. Barbara Tepa Lupack, Adapting the Arthurian Legends for Children: Essays on Arthurian Juvenilia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), p. 273
  2. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, bfi.org.uk, accessed 2 July 2022
  3. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, phase9.tv, accessed 3 July 2022
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