The King's Guard (2000)

A princess falls in love with her father's swordsman.

Director:

Jonathan Tydor

Writer:

Jonathan Tydor

Stars:

Eric Roberts, Ron Perlman, Lesley-Anne Down

Cast

Credited cast:
Eric Roberts	...	Augustus Talbert
Ron Perlman	...	Lord Morton
Lesley-Anne Down	...	Queen Beatrice
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Beecroft	...	Sgt. Drummond
Brian Cousins	...	Otto
Gerald Patrick Cox	...	Sir Gerald
Kit Davlin	...	Ardon DeAvalon
Abba Elfman	...	Adam
Jason Faulske	...	Bandit / Swordsman
Delia Ford	...	Peasant Woman
Casie Fox	...	Katie McDear
Mark Gadbois	...	White Flag Bandit
Robert G. Goodwin	...	Master Robert
Khrystyne Haje	...	Roxanne
Matthias Hues	...	Angus

Storyline

A princess falls in love with her father's swordsman.

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Plot Keywords:

swordsman | princess | violence | adventure hero | dark comedy | 

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Taglines:

The most powerful enemy always comes from within.

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Genres:

Adventure

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for violence

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 August 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Custódia do Rei

Filming Locations:

San Diego, California, USA

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Although Eric Roberts received top billing for the movie, he first appears 25 minutes into the film and has less than 30 lines of dialogue.

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Goofs

In the scene where the black guy runs from the stronghold, a barbed wire fence can clearly be seen in the background.

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Quotes

[Talbert has just stabbed a very obese servant]
Augustus Talbert: Bleed, fat man!

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Crazy Credits

Watch out for the out-takes at the end of the video or DVD.

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Soundtracks

"You Are My Heart"
Music & Lyrics by Ray Colcord
© 2000 Superscore Music
A.S.C.A.P.

User Reviews

Movies need a budget for a reason (Possible Spoilers)

Not the worst movie I have ever seen, but still in the same general vicinity. The King's Guard is a fumbling attempt to merge adventure and comedy. The humour often came off as really badly overacted nonsense and the action scenes were overlong and poorly choreographed. There was no grandeur in what should have been a grand adventure. It seemed as if all of the sweeping shots of wonderful vistas had been left out because they couldn't afford the extras to fill the spaces. The costuming looked hastily thrown together and this was explained by introducing the idea that the king's guardsmen were all acting undercover. It would have made as much sense if there was a scene where the king gathered his men together and said, 'Tomorrow is mufti day boys, so you can wear whatever you like.' The lack of extras/money was again shown when not very far into the movie, the narrator comes on to explain that the situation had become dire, due to an attack of overwhelming numbers of bandits and that during the fight, the allies of the king's guard had run off. The next scene shows some of the men of the king's guard pulling one of the carts that had formed part of the caravan that had been attacked…they couldn't even afford horses! The four or five thousand dollars that went into making the movie could have been used to do some good in the world, instead of stealing 92 minutes of my life.