Lancelot and Guinevere (1963)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Cornel Wilde

Writers:

Richard Schayer (writer) and
Cornel Wilde (writer)

Release Date:

5 June 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy

Tagline:

This was the loving...battling...lusty age of King Arthur...the Knights of the Round Table...the fabulous age of Camelot!

Plot Keywords:

Sword Fight | Barbarian | Fictional War | Great Britain | Convent

Cast

Cornel Wilde	...	Sir Lancelot
Jean Wallace	...	Guinevere
Brian Aherne	...	King Arthur
George Baker	...	Sir Gawaine
Archie Duncan	...	Sir Lamorak
Adrienne Corri	...	Lady Vivian
Michael Meacham	...	Sir Modred
Iain Gregory	...	Sir Tors
Mark Dignam	...	Merlin
Reginald Beckwith	...	Sir Dagonet
John Barrie	...	Sir Belvedere
Richard Thorp	...	Sir Gareth
Joseph Tomelty	...	Sir Kaye
Graham Stark	...	Rian
Geoffrey Dunn	...	Edrick

Also Known As:

Sword of Lancelot (USA)

Runtime:

USA:116 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | UK:A

Filming Locations:

Divicibare, Yugoslavia

Company:

Emblem Productions

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.

Quotes:

Guinevere: I should have known better than to trust a Frenchman!

Movie Connections:

Version of Excalibur (1981)

The original "Days of our Lances"

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!