Steel Dawn overview

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Steel Dawn

Synopsis:

This futuristic drama offers the classic story of Shane seved up with a few Mad Max moments and some interesting twists. The tale is set in the smouldering, decimated post-World War III town of Meridian, where locals scrabble to keep their meager farms watered in the midst of a desert wasteland. Bad-guys - a powerful landowner and his cronies - try to monopolize the precious local water supplies by bullying, kidnapping and even murdering citizens. To this beleaguered place comes the enigmatic swordsman/ warrior Nomad who has come in search of his mentor's killer.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Lance Hool
  • Studio: Silver Lion Films, Vestron
  • Year: 1987
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: R
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Action, Adventure
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 1987 11 06 (USA)

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