Knights of the Round Table (1953)
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MGM's first CinemaScope production was the lavishly appointed Knights of the Round Table. Without overlapping into any copyrighted material (specifically T.H. White's The Once and Future King), the film spins a lucid account of the King Arthur legend. The good king is played by Mel Ferrer, while Queen Guenevere is essayed by Ava Gardner. Arthur's efforts to create a perfect society in Camelot are compromised when Guenevere falls in love with trusted knight Sir Lancelot (Robert Taylor). The ambitious Mordred (Stanley Baker) uses his knowledge of the Queen's indiscretion to destroy both Camelot and King Arthur's round table. Most of the story material in Knights of the Round Table is lifted from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 115 mins
Complete Cast:
- Robert Taylor - Sir Lancelot of the Lake
- Mel Ferrer - King Arthur
- Stanley Baker - Sir Modred
- Felix Aylmer - Merlin
- Anthony Forwood - Gareth
- Niall MacGinnis - Green Knight
- Jill Clifford - Bronwyn
- John Brooking - Bedivere
- Alan Tilvern - Steward
- Mary Germaine - Brigid
- Barry Mackay - Green Knight's First Squire
- Roy Russell - Leogrance
- Dana Wynter - Vivien
- Ava Gardner - Guinevere
- Anne Crawford - Morgan Le Fay
- Gabriel Woolf - Percival
- Maureen Swanson - Elaine
- Robert Urquhart - Sir Gawaine
- Ann Hanslip - Nan
- Stephen Vercoe - Agravaine
- Peter Gawthorne - Bishop
- John Sherman - Lambert
- Martin Wyldeck - John
- Derek Tansley - Green Knight's Squire
- Howard Marion-Crawford - Simon
- Director(s):
- Richard Thorpe
- Writer(s):
- Noel Langley, Talbot Jennings, Jan Lustig
- Producer(s):
- Pandro S. Berman
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