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It is the year 1345 and, upon having his wedding day interrupted, Sir Roger, Baron de Tourneville, prepares to lead a military force to the Holy Land. Late that night, an enormous silver spacecraft lands outside the town. It is a scouting craft for the Wersgorix Empire, a brutal dominion light years from our solar system. The aliens destroy a tower, kill a watchmen, and flatten a pony. That dead pony is a step too far!
The Wersgorix attempt to take over Earth by testing the feasibility of its colonization. However, the aliens, having forgotten hand-to-hand combat since it was made obsolete by their advanced technology, are caught off-guard by the angered Englishmen. The villagers and soldiers in Ansby storm the craft and kill all but one Wersgor, Branithar. The band of Crusaders find themselves in possession of an Alien ship and the Alien to pilot it. Armed with the means to conquer the Holy Land, the naive Crusaders set off on a grand crusade, only to find themselves not in Jerusalem, but at the mercy of their entire captive/pilot….heaven help the Aliens.
Welcome to the Sanctum Secorum podcast. Tonight, we present the LONG LOST episode in which the Keepers of Mysteries examine the pythonesque adventure film, The High Crusade – based upon the novel by Poul Anderson.
William Blackhorse Singer is the Star Tracker — an expert in the pursuit and capture of exotic life forms. The last warrior of the Navajo people, he is a man out of time and place, adrift in an uncertain future. And now he must join forces with an enemy shapeshifter called Cat — the lone surviving member of an extinct alien race — to track down and eliminate a dangerous extraterrestrial assassin. For Singer, it is a costly collaboration. For once the killer is disposed of, the true hunt is to begin: a relentless and deadly chase across worlds and into the heart of ancient mysteries…with the hunter as prey.