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Director:
Cornel Wilde
Writers:
Richard Schayer (writer) and
Cornel Wilde (writer)
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Release Date:
5 June 1963 (USA) more
Tagline:
This was the loving...battling...lusty age of King Arthur...the Knights of the Round Table...the fabulous age of Camelot! more
User Comments:
The original "Days of our Lances" more

Cast

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Sword of Lancelot (USA)
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Runtime:
USA:116 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English | French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | UK:A
Filming Locations:
Divicibare, Yugoslavia more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: In the main battle scene, a soldier - apparently thinking he was out of camera range - can be seen at the bottom of the screen standing with an arrow sticking out of his shoulder and smoking a cigarette. more
Quotes:
Guinevere: I should have known better than to trust a Frenchman! more
Movie Connections:
Version of Excalibur (1981) more

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17 out of 22 people found the following comment useful:-
The original "Days of our Lances", 7 April 2002
Author: Noel Bailey (uds3@hotmail.com) from Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, Australia

WHAT's this? Not a solitary comment on one of the really good medieval flicks of this period?

Actually it was one of the last, coming at the end of the cycle that had included KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE, PRINCE VALIANT, THE BLACK SHIELD OF FALWORTH, THE BLACK KNIGHT....all big moneyspinners in the 50's. It was also just 4 years shy of Richard Harris' beloved, but overblown musical CAMELOT.

The film performed disappointingly at the box office as audiences tastes had changed and biblical spectacle was all the rage by the early 60's. By '63 even THAT had waned, THE LAST DAYS OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH having closed the chapter on epics the previous year.

But hey, Cornel Wilde was a ragingly in-form Lancelot and pulled out all stops to impress his lady Guinevere. Course, her husband, King Arthur was majorly disgusted with both of them and things were messy there for a while. But you know, simply nothing overcame life's little set- backs in those days of yore, like crushing a few skulls in with a mace or broadsword and Lancelot was the champion after all. Some reviewers at the time took exception to Lancelot's french accent (Ah, my GuineVERE, u know 'ow I love you non?, ees not your coleurs 'anging from my lance-tip cherie?) Well ze franch accent or not, Cornel made as good a Lancelot as anyone ever has. This film rocked.

Think A KNIGHT'S TALE handled seriously!

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