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Director:
Writers:
Oscar Brodney (screenplay)
Oscar Brodney (story)
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Release Date:
2 November 1955 (USA) more
Tagline:
The First Startling Story Of The World's Most Famous Ride!
Plot:
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady. full summary | add synopsis
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'The Queen of Technicolor' discreetly covered! more (1 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Maureen O'Hara | ... | Lady Godiva | |
| George Nader | ... | Lord Leofric | |
| Victor McLaglen | ... | Grimald | |
| Rex Reason | ... | Harold | |
| Torin Thatcher | ... | Lord Godwin | |
| Eduard Franz | ... | King Edward | |
| Leslie Bradley | ... | Count Eustace | |
| Arthur Shields | ... | Innkeeper | |
| Robert Warwick | ... | Humbert | |
| Arthur Gould-Porter | ... | Thorold | |
| Grant Withers | ... | Pendar | |
| Anthony Eustrel | ... | Prior | |
| Kathryn Givney | ... | Abbess | |
| Sim Iness | ... | Oswin | |
| Thayer Roberts | ... | William, Duke of Normandy |
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Also Known As:
Lady Godiva of Coventry (UK)
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89 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:PG (re-rating) (2006) | UK:U (original rating) | West Germany:6 | Finland:K-16
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Referenced in "Columbo: Murder, Smoke and Shadows (#8.2)" (1989) more
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
The sole raison d'être for this forgettable film is to exploit the legend of Lady Godiva, who in medieval times supposedly expressed her social protests by riding naked through the city on horseback... Not surprisingly, the movie did less than deliver the titillating ride that many in the audience may have expected...
A thin story line revolving around a battle between the Saxons and the Normans is developed, with Clint Eastwood taking a drop in screen credits from this low-budget adventure a tedious embroidered 'hotchpotch' spectacle of Norman intrigue in Eleventh Century England, as the foreigners try to share and conquer the Saxon earl..
Maureen O'Hara plays the gentlewoman famous for her legendary ride while nude through Coventry... Is it to prove the loyalty of the Saxons? Godiva is the wife of Leofric (George Nader) earl of Mercia, who brings under control the Saxon shrew...
The film is a comic strip fictitious account...