Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Circle Of Iron!!!

Yep, I thought I was done with quests, but I stumbled into one that I didn't know was a quest.

Circle Of Iron (1978)


So, in 1985, my friend Steve spent the night, and then once we were sure my folks were asleep, we snuck out to steal snacks, and peek at R rated movies on HBO.

What we saw was this weird fucked up scene of a guy cooking himself in a barrel of oil, and the hero, a Conan/Beastmaster looking guy, walks by, and has a whole Python-esque conversation with him.

Turns out oil-dude couldn't fully mentally suppress his sexual urges to achieve ultimate enlightenment like he wanted, so he's dissolving his whole lower half.
He asks Cord (barbarian-guy) how he's coming along. Cord looks, and says his legs look like seaweed, and his junk is a pimple.
Oil-guy sighs with relief.
Steve wanted to bail after that, and we snuck back to our sleeping bags.

Now!! I always remembered that, but I could have SWORN that happened in one of the Ator movies!!
I thought I had that covered reviewing "Ator: The Fighting Eagle" and "Iron Warrior".

I went down a rabbit hole looking for exactly WHICH Ator it was in, and it wasn't in "Ator". It was in "Circle of Iron".

So, that gets a "whoops my bad" and this counts as "Ator revisited" too.

Anyway!! Turns out, Bruce Lee wrote this before he died, and I safely assume it he was supposed to be Cord. 
Bruce Lee having comedy dialog with oil-guy. Can you imagine? That would have gone down in cinema history.
Alas.

Hmm, I guess this triples as "Bruce Lee revisited" too.



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