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Sword of the Valiant

Original title: Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • 19841984
  • PGPG
  • 1h 42m
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4.4/10
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Sword of the Valiant (1984)
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The Green Knight challenges King Arthur's knights. But only young Gawain accepts and decapitates him. The knight takes his head and now gives Gawain one year to learn about virtues, knightho... Read allThe Green Knight challenges King Arthur's knights. But only young Gawain accepts and decapitates him. The knight takes his head and now gives Gawain one year to learn about virtues, knighthood and then face the challenge himself.The Green Knight challenges King Arthur's knights. But only young Gawain accepts and decapitates him. The knight takes his head and now gives Gawain one year to learn about virtues, knighthood and then face the challenge himself.
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    • Stephen Weeks
  • Writers
    • Stephen Weeks(screenplay)
    • Howard C. Pen(screenplay)
    • Philip M. Breen(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Miles O'Keeffe
    • Cyrielle Clair
    • Leigh Lawson
    • Stephen Weeks
  • Writers
    • Stephen Weeks(screenplay)
    • Howard C. Pen(screenplay)
    • Philip M. Breen(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Miles O'Keeffe
    • Cyrielle Clair
    • Leigh Lawson
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    • 52User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
    • 12Metascore
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    Sean Connery and Miles O'Keeffe in Sword of the Valiant (1984)
    Cyrielle Clair and Miles O'Keeffe in Sword of the Valiant (1984)
    Sean Connery in Sword of the Valiant (1984)
    Sean Connery in Sword of the Valiant (1984)
    Sean Connery in Sword of the Valiant (1984)
    Sean Connery in Sword of the Valiant (1984)
    Sean Connery in Sword of the Valiant (1984)
    Sean Connery and Miles O'Keeffe in Sword of the Valiant (1984)
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    Miles O'Keeffe
    Miles O'Keeffe
    • Sir Gawain
    Cyrielle Clair
    Cyrielle Clair
    • Linet
    • (as Cyrielle Claire)
    Leigh Lawson
    Leigh Lawson
    • Humphrey
    Sean Connery
    Sean Connery
    • The Green Knight
    Trevor Howard
    Trevor Howard
    • The King
    Peter Cushing
    Peter Cushing
    • Seneschal - Gaspar
    Ronald Lacey
    Ronald Lacey
    • Oswald
    Lila Kedrova
    Lila Kedrova
    • Lady of Lyonesse
    John Rhys-Davies
    John Rhys-Davies
    • Baron Fortinbras
    Wilfrid Brambell
    Wilfrid Brambell
    • Porter
    Bruce Lidington
    • Sir Bertilak
    Douglas Wilmer
    Douglas Wilmer
    • The Black Knight
    Brian Coburn
    • Friar Vosper
    David Rappaport
    David Rappaport
    • Sage
    Emma Burdon-Sutton
    Emma Burdon-Sutton
    • Morgan La Fay
    • (as Emma Sutton)
    Thomas Heathcote
    Thomas Heathcote
    • Armourer
    John Serret
    John Serret
    • Priest
    Mike Edmonds
    Mike Edmonds
    • Tiny Man
      • Stephen Weeks
    • Writers
      • Stephen Weeks(screenplay)
      • Howard C. Pen(screenplay)
      • Philip M. Breen(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Writer and director Stephen Weeks wanted to cast Mark Hamill as Gawain, but producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus cast Miles O'Keeffe instead. O'Keefe's voice was dubbed by Peter Firth.
    • Goofs
      When the Green Knight is addressing the revelers at the King's feast, after he has been decapitated and has put his head back on, his sleeve falls back when he raises his arm and you can see the line where the makeup applied to his hand ends.
    • Quotes

      Sir Gawain: I forgot to ask one question during my quick initiation into knighthood.

      Humphrey: Oh? What's that?

      Sir Gawain: How to relieve myself in this tin suit.

    • Alternate versions
      There is a much longer version of the film, shot in its original widescreen format. Not seen since its first screening, this was to be released on DVD. This did not materialize and this version will probably not be seen again.
    • Connections
      Featured in The World According to Smith & Jones: The Middle Ages (1987)

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    5/10
    Legendary account about one of the best known Arthurian stories dealing with a chivalrous young who has to resolve a twisted riddle in a year or die
    The old English tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is brought to the screen with a charming blend of action , imagination ,thrills , adventure , and tongue-in-cheek humor . The medieval legend of a supernatural chivalrous young squire who challenges the king's men to kill him . Being middlingly starred Myles O'Keefe as Gawain , Sean Connery as the Green Knight, and appealing Cyrielle Claire as Lynette ("The Lady of Lyonesse"). In Camelot on New Year's Day, King Arthur's court is waiting for the feasting to start when the king asks first to see or hear of an exciting adventure. At this a gigantic figure, entirely green in appearance and riding a green horse, rides unexpectedly into the hall. He wears no armour but bears an axe in one hand and a holly bough in the other . He insists he has come for a friendly "Christmas game": someone is to strike him once with his axe on condition that the Green Knight (Sean Connery) may return the blow in a year and a day . There appears Gaiwan (a wooden Miles O'Keefe) , a rookie knight in the court of King Arthur (Trevor Howard) who is sent out on a quest brought on by a challenge issue by the magical Green Knight . Gaiwan must solve a riddle in one year or die .

    This flabby fairy tale adventure contains witchery , fantasy , cheesy special affects, stagy acting , surreal imagery and grimly marches . The picture has good settings , as thick rolling fog , deep forest , dark castles and rocky seacoast ; this movie delivers on locations ; however , it results to be mediocre and a little bit boring . Connery can only be on-screen for a few scenes but he adds zest to his character , he steals the show as an ironic Green Knight . Ronald Lacey, who played the character Oswald, also played the same character, also called Oswald, in "Gawain and the Green Knight" which was made in 1973, and basically, it was the same movie, same actor, same role .

    This lumbering film version of one of the Arthurian legends is badly done , as the motion picture was regularly directed by Stephen Weeks . Filmmaker Weeks was one of two young British directors to emerge in the terror field in the late sixties , the other , Michael Reeves died at 25 . He began his professional film career at age 17, directing a series of short films . He made his film cinema short film, 'Moods of a Victorian Church' (1967) at age 19, and his first cinema drama, a film set in the First World War in France '1917' . Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was Stephen's second picture at age of 22 and he realized other horror films such as ¨Madhouse mansion¨ or ¨Ghost story¨(1979) and adventure movie such as ¨Gawain and the Green Knight¨ (1973) also with Peter Cushing , Ronald Lacey , Murray Head as Sir Gawain and Nigel Green and its remake titled ¨Sword of the valiant¨ (1983) and not much of an improvement . Rating : 5/10 . Well worth watching but only for Sean Connery fans .

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance. It is one of the best known Arthurian stories, and is of a type known as the "beheading game". The Green Knight is interpreted by some as a representation of the Green Man of folklore and by others as an allusion to Christ. Written in stanzas of alliterative verse, each of which ends in a rhyming bob and wheel, it draws on Welsh, Irish and English stories, as well as the French chivalric tradition. It is an important poem in the romance genre, which typically involves a hero who goes on a quest which tests his prowess, and it remains popular to this day in modern English renderings from J. R. R. Tolkien, Simon Armitage and others, as well as through film and stage adaptations. It describes how Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, accepts a challenge from a mysterious "Green Knight" who challenges any knight to strike him with his axe if he will take a return blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts and beheads him with his blow, at which the Green Knight stands up, picks up his head and reminds Gawain of the appointed time. In his struggles to keep his bargain Gawain demonstrates chivalry and loyalty until his honour is called into question by a test involving Lady Bertilak, the lady of the Green Knight's castle.The poem survives in a single manuscript, the Cotton Nero A.x., which also includes three religious narrative poems .
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      • August 17, 1984 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • MGM
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • St Michael's Mount, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Golan-Globus Productions
      • Stephen Weeks Company
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    • 1 hour 42 minutes
      • Dolby Stereo

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