Revealing: After Conan is set free from slavery he finds a cave where he removes a sword. When he climbs out of the cave you'll notice someone's hands near his feet pushing up his shackles.
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Mistakes
While escaping from the orgy raid, Valeria stops and kills a few pursuers. However, her last strike never makes contact with the guard. See more...
Trivia
In the scene where Conan is wrapped in a blanket and being painted to ward of the spirits, Arnold Schwarzenegger actually fell asleep while filming this. See more...
Conan the Barbarian mistakes
Continuity: When Valeria climbs down the ropes of the serpent tower she is twisted in the ropes. When it cuts she is climbing properly down.
Continuity: Another one from the beginning of the film when Conan's mother is killed. Conan's mother is holding a sword, protecting her son. Thulsa Doom climbs down from his horse, takes off his helmet, and casts some kind of spell on her with his eyes. She lowers her sword and Doom slowly turns away, then spins quickly and cuts off her head. When the camera cuts to a longer shot, we see that Doom is about 15 feet away from her, much too far to reach her with a 3 foot sword.
Conan the Barbarian trivia
Arnold Schwarzenegger did his own stunts, as a believable stunt double could not be found.
Arnold's buddy from his bodybuilding days, Franco Colombo, appears in many of his films. In this film he appears at the very beginning, as part of the army that attacks Conan's village and kills his parents. He is the advance scout who crouches atop a rock as the rest of the army sweeps by him.
The dagger in the movie with resembles fangs of a serpent was kept by Arnold as a memento. He still owns it today.