Lancelot and Guinevere

Infobox Film
name = Lancelot and Guinevere


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director = Cornel Wilde
producer = Bernard Luber
Cornel Wilde
writer = Richard Schayer
Cornel Wilde (as Jefferson Pascal)
starring = Cornel Wilde
Jean Wallace
Brian Aherne
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distributor = Universal-International Films
released = June 2 1963 (UK)
June 5 1963 (US)
runtime = 116 minutes
country = UK
language = English
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amg_id = 1:48219
imdb_id = 0057547

"Lancelot and Guinevere" (known as "Sword of Lancelot" in the U.S.) is a British 1963 film starring Cornel Wilde and his real-life wife at the time, Jean Wallace. This lesser-known version of the Camelot legend, is a work almost solely made by Cornel Wilde, who co-produced, directed, co-wrote, and played Lancelot.

Plot

Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls for Guinevere (Wallace), bride of Arthur (Brian Aherne, who had essayed this character more than once, e.g. in 1954's "Prince Valiant"), and she for him.

Made ten years after Richard Thorpe's film "Knights of the Round Table", the illicit romance this time is portrayed as a more intimate affair, and the sword fights have a more menacing reality (Wilde was an excellent fencer). A sub-plot concerns Arthur's effort to forestall a challenge from a rival king, a problem that will inevitably catch Lancelot up in a personal conflict.

External links

*imdb title|id=0057547
*tcmdb title|id=92176
* [http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/nshowmovie.html?movieid=154 overview of screenshots and links to download]