Amazons (1986 film)

Amazons
Theatrical release film poster by Boris Vallejo
Directed byAlejandro Sessa
Written byCharles R. Saunders
Based on"Agbewe’s Sword"
by Charles R. Saunders
Produced byHéctor Olivera
associate
Roger Corman
StarringPenelope Reed
Danitza Kingsley
Joseph Whipp
Ty Randolph
Jacques Arndt
CinematographyLeonard Solis
Edited byEdward Lowe
Music byOscar Camp
Production
companies
Distributed byConcorde Pictures (US)
Aries Films Internacional
MGM/US (video)
Release date
  • 1986 (1986)
20 May 1987 (video)
Running time
76 minutes
CountriesArgentina
United States
LanguageEnglish

Amazons is a 1986 Argentine-American fantasy adventure film directed by Alejandro Sessa and starring Penelope Reed, Danitza Kingsley, Joseph Whipp, Ty Randolph, and Jacques Arndt.

The screenplay was written by Charles R. Saunders, based on his short story "Agbewe’s Sword", which first appeared in the 1979 anthology Amazons! The short story is included as part of the series Dossouye, about the real-life female warriors of the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, gathered together in a novel published by Saunders in 2008.

Saunders and Sessa later collaborated again on Stormquest (1987).