Director: Richard Thorpe

Writers: Talbot Jennings; Jan Lustig; Noel Langley

From novel: Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

Music by: Miklos Rozsa

Producer: Pandro S. Berman

Keywords: Action/Adventure

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Felix Aylmer	Actor	21-Feb-1889	2-Sep-1979	Henry V
Stanley Baker	Actor	8-Feb-1927	28-Jun-1976	Knights of the Round Table
Mel Ferrer	Actor	25-Aug-1917	2-Jun-2008	War and Peace
Ava Gardner	Actor	24-Dec-1922	25-Jan-1990	The Barefoot Contessa
Niall MacGinnis	Actor	29-Mar-1913	6-Jan-1977	49th Parallel
Robert Taylor	Actor	5-Aug-1911	8-Jun-1969	Quo Vadis

CAST

Starring
Robert Taylor	...   Lancelot
Ava Gardner	...   Guinevere
Mel Ferrer	...   Arthur
with
Anne Crawford	...   Morgan Le Fay
Stanley Baker	...   Modred
Felix Aylmer	...   Merlin
Maureen Swanson	...   Elaine
Gabriel Woolf	...   Percival
Anthony Forwood	...   Gareth
Robert Urquhart	...   Gawaine
Niall MacGinnis	...   Green Knight
Ann Hanslip	...   Nan
Jill Clifford	...   Bronwyn
Stephen Vercoe	...   Agravaine

REVIEWS

Review by Carlos A. Matas (posted on 8-Jul-2007)

Saw it as a boy when it came out. Now --well into maturity, to put it mildly--I have seen it again...a good, solid, American family film. Nothing exceptional, but, again, solidly structured, well acted by all, with beautiful photography and costumes and good epic music by --who else-- my favorite movie composer, Miklos Rozsa, who would actually outdo himself some years later. The message --typical of the 50's-- is of course valuable today: chivalry, loyalty, and struggle with the passions. The line's still valid: "...a man and a woman can love each other with no evil...so is the heart purified." Only the innocent Percival can see the Holy Grail --Lancelot was noble and brave but not so innocent. Ferrer thanks to his Irish mother could be a good King Arthur --can you imagine, Cuban father? He was no Ricky Ricardo, thank the Lord. So Taylor is strong and loyal, Baker is strong and disloyal and Ava Gardner is beautiful and undecided...(at that time only anglos were beautiful, of course). For a review, that's about it. Nothing memorable, but good stuff. (One last thing..would you believe my sister -who's not dumb you may be sure- thought it was the bad guys of Modred who threw the snake out in the final battle? No, my dear, the poor snake just came out for a little crawl, unsuspecting the consequences to the English nation and the noble King Arthur.)

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