screenshots / The Sword and the Claw / 1975 Ugur Film

Original title: Kiliç Aslan (Sword Lion), also released as both Lion Man and Lionman.

Turkish action-fantasy adventure stars Cüneyt Arkin as a "Tarzan-like" hero who was raised by a pride of lions.

Directed by Natuk Baytan whose last film credit was 1986's Tarzan Rifki, a comedy about a guy (who thinks he is Tarzan) that is mistaken for a hired killer by the mob.

The film was preserved from the only known 35mm theatrical print in existence and released on blu-ray by the American Genre Film Archive.

Cüneyt Arkin passed in 23022 at the age of 84.

Natuk Baytan passed in 1986 at the age of 61.