Laurence Olivier's wartime flag-waver graduates from tiny stage to stylised sets to sprawling battlefield as he breathes life into Shakespeare's tale of how the titular monarch led a band of hopelessly outnumbered footsoldiers to victory against the French at Agincourt. A difficult watch for anyone not versed in deciphering Shakespeare's ancient prose, but the battle itself is something to behold. Sadly, the film limps along for a further half-hour to show Henry's wooing of Katherine once the fighting is over.
Review of Henry V
