A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)
Infobox Film
name = A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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director = Tay Garnett
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writer = Mark Twain (novel)
Edmund Beloin
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starring = Bing Crosby
Rhonda Fleming
Cedric Hardwicke
William Bendix
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distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = April 22 1949
runtime = 106 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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amg_id = 1:10790
imdb_id = 0041259
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is a 1949 musical comedy film (though produced in early 1948) adaptation of the Mark Twain novel of the same name that was distributed by Paramount Pictures. It starred Bing Crosby as an American mechanic who is knocked out and wakes up in the land of King Arthur, where he finds romance with Alisande La Carteloise, played by Rhonda Fleming, and danger with Merlin and Morgan Le Fay.
Cast
*Bing Crosby as Hank Martin
*Rhonda Fleming as Alisande La Carteloise
*Cedric Hardwicke as King Arthur
*William Bendix as Sir Sagramore
*Murvyn Vye as Merlin
*Virginia Field as Morgan Le Fay
*Joseph Vitale as Sir Logris
*Henry Wilcoxon as Sir Lancelot
*Richard Webb as Sir Galahad
ongs
*"Once and for Always"
*"If You Stub Your Toe on the Moon"
*"When Is Sometime"
*"Busy Doing Nothing"
*"Twixt Myself and Me"
All music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Johnny Burke. The orchestral score was written by longtime Paramount staff composer Victor Young, who also conducted the orchestra for many of Crosby's Decca Records recordings.
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