Prince Valiant
by Henry Hathaway
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Actor: Debra Paget, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Sterling HaydenDirector: Henry Hathaway
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Editor: Robert L. Simpson
Producer: Robert L. Jacks
Writer: Dudley Nichols
Writer: Hal Foster
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.55:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Prince Valiant
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Summary: 1 Stars
Robert Ulrich is one of the worst actors ever to drag his feet across a movie screen. Absolutely zero charisma. That's the first problem. The directing is profoundly uninspired, devoid of creativity, and workmanlike to the extreme. Third, the screenplay is just a connect-the-dots affair with painfully obvious set-ups and motivations.
To top it off you have a performance of such stunning awfulness by Sterling Hayden it could damage your ability to ever take him seriously again -- which is a shame because he's in some good films! This must have been a painful experience for James Mason, who barely manages to bring the film to life when he shows up. I am a sucker for all things 1950s and CinemaScope but this has to be one of the worst of the decade. Should be bundled in on of those 20-DVD sets where each film is a buck.
Summary of Prince Valiant
Overthrown and driven into exile, the king of Scandia has fled to Britain with his wife and son, Prince Valiant (Wagner). As a young man, Val hoes to King Arthur's court, where he is befriended by Sir Gawain (sterling Hayden) and trains to be become a knight of the round table. Val also falls in love with a beautiful princess (Leigh) and faces the treachery of the mysterious Black Knight, who is scheming to betray Val's family.Cartoonist Hal Foster's medieval hero, the Scandinavian Prince Valiant, comes to the screen in all his Dutch-bob-haircut glory in this 1954 film directed by Henry Hathaway (Kiss of Death). Robert Wagner plays the title role and does a bang-up job of it, convincingly portraying the heroic prince as he enters the court of King Arthur (Brian Aherne) in England and becomes (with some tutelage from Sir Gawain, played by Sterling Hayden) a Knight of the Round Table. Determined to restore his dethroned family to their proper seat back home, Valiant takes on the Black Knight (James Mason), who plans to do away with Arthur and then finish his misdeeds back in Scandia. Under such pressure, the prince, quite understandably, falls in love with Princess Aleta (Janet Leigh). Hathaway proves to be the perfect director for this material, as his fluid skill, moderate forcefulness, and adaptability to genre necessities keep the film from teetering too far in the direction of pulp--or self-seriousness. --Tom Keogh
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