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25 October 1967 (USA)
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The Most Beautiful Love Story Ever! more
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The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere is played out amid the pagentry of Camelot...
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Won 3 Oscars.
Another 4 wins
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6 nominations
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Birthday Suits and a Ballsy Actress
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The Fantasticks to Kick Off Long Wharf's 2009-10 Season Oct 7 - Nov 1
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(From FilmExperience. 18 November 2009, 8:47 AM, PST)
The Fantasticks to Kick Off Long Wharf's 2009-10 Season Oct 7 - Nov 1
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 1 November 2009, 1:30 AM, PST)
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Begging for a remake, but...
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Richard Harris | ... | King Arthur |
 | Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Guenevere |
 | Franco Nero | ... | Lancelot Du Lac |
| David Hemmings | ... | Mordred |
| Lionel Jeffries | ... | King Pellinore |
| Laurence Naismith | ... | Merlyn |
| Pierre Olaf | ... | Dap |
| Estelle Winwood | ... | Lady Clarinda |
| Gary Marshal | ... | Sir Lionel |
| Anthony Rogers | ... | Sir Dinadan |
| Peter Bromilow | ... | Sir Sagramore |
| Sue Casey | ... | Lady Sybil |
| Gary Marsh | ... | Tom of Warwick |
| Nicolas Beauvy | ... | King Arthur as a Boy |
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179 min | Canada:175 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (35 mm prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
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The song "If Ever I Would Leave You" won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Written for a Motion Picture, even though it was not written especially for the film but for the original stage production of "Camelot", and all the other nominees were songs especially written for films. This is the only instance in the history of the Golden Globe Awards that this has happened.
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Continuity: In the scene when Arthur is explaining to Pellinore about the court system, the people in the background change and disappear between shots.
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A Knight: The rules of battle are not for Lancelot Du Lac, Your Majesty! Let us attack now while they sleep!
King Arthur: [firmly] We will attack when I give the command - at dawn.
[the knight leaves, and Arthur begins to talk to himself]
King Arthur: Oh, Merlyn, Merlyn, why is Ginny in that castle, behind walls I cannot enter? How did I blunder into this agonizing absurdity? Where did I stumble? How did I go wrong? Should I not have loved her?
[sighs]
King Arthur: Then I should not have been born! Oh, Merlyn, I haven't got much time. Within an inch of sunlight, the arrows begin to fly. If I am to die in battle, please, please do not let me die bewildered!
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A Knight: The rules of battle are not for Lancelot Du Lac, Your Majesty! Let us attack now while they sleep!
King Arthur: [firmly] We will attack when I give the command - at dawn.
[the knight leaves, and Arthur begins to talk to himself]
King Arthur: Oh, Merlyn, Merlyn, why is Ginny in that castle, behind walls I cannot enter? How did I blunder into this agonizing absurdity? Where did I stumble? How did I go wrong? Should I not have loved her?
[sighs]
King Arthur: Then I should not have been born! Oh, Merlyn, I haven't got much time. Within an inch of sunlight, the arrows begin to fly. If I am to die in battle, please, please do not let me die bewildered!
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References The Sword in the Stone (1963)
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C'est Moi
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Now that movie musicals are in vogue again, maybe somebody at Warner Brothers will give the green light to remake this Lerner & Loewe spectacle that was poorly filmed in 1967.
This version is really a shame, considering how beloved the original 1960 Broadway musical is. Lerner & Loewe wrote some of their best songs for this show: "If Ever I Would Leave You", "Camelot", "What do the Simple Folk Do?" and "Fie on Goodness". But when making the film, producer Jack Warner chose tone-deaf actors, one of the worst directors in the medium, and had Alan J. Lerner rewrite his script, stressing the drama over the comedy (to the narrative's detriment) as well as throwing out half the score (including, sob, the show-stopping "Fie on Goodness"). Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave ARE great actors, and in their dramatic scenes, they are quite effective, but they most certainly are NOT singers, especially poor Ms. Redgrave (although, her orgasmic rendition of "The Lusty Month of May" has to be seen to be believed). Franco Nero, a beautiful, beautiful man, has a great opening with "C'est Moi", but then goes downhill from there. David Hemmings manages to bring some mirth to the film, but he's only in the last third, and by that time it's nearly too late (plus, they cut his only song!).
On the plus side, the film DID deserve the 3 Oscars it won: Best Scoring (if you take the voices out, the music sounds magnificent), Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, and Best Costume Design (the flick IS sumptuous). And the cinematography is rather breathtaking at times. (If you do watch it, try to see it on DVD, where it's letterboxed.)
So, if anybody from Warner Brothers, or any other studio for that matter, is reading this, give it another go: go back to T.H. White's original source novel and Lerner's original B'way script, keep ALL the songs intact, and hire actors who are proven singers, say, Ewan McGregor (he demonstrated his pipes in Moulin Rouge!) as Arthur, Kate Winslet (who scored a British top 10 hit last year) as Guinevere, and Hugh Jackman (who got his start in a West End production of Oklahoma!) as Lancelot. Please....