Prince Valiant
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Actor: Debra Paget, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Sterling HaydenBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, 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
Movie Review: HAL FOSTER, LIVE
Summary: 5 Stars
As an art student, interested primarily in life drawing and composition and painting, the cartoon art of Illustrator Hal Foster was necessary study. In 1954 amidst the swarming of resurgence of Swashbucklers, and knight's in training films, came PRINCE VALIANT by Director Henry Hathaway.
The film is ablaze with color, adventure, courageous uphill battles by the just against the Imperial evils we know so well these days, and what a cast! James Mason as the well named, evil Sir Brack, and a young Robert Wagner, as Valiant the Scandinavian Super Hero, Sir Gawain, played by Sterling Hayden, the irrepressible Yachtsman back from another trip abroad with his son and eager to make some money for his next foray into the South seas, trying hard to be anything but a cowboy or a gangster, Brian Ahern as King Arthur, Janet Leigh, bursting out of her gowns and as gorgeous as possible in her youthful perfection of face and form, Debra Paget, as her lovely sister Ilene, all supported by Victor Mclaglen, Donald Crisp, Barry Jones, Mary phillips, Nevile Brand, Tom Conway, Sammy Ogg, Howard Wendle and many other character actors give the film a festive sparkle of color, contrast and spectacle worthy of Dean Cornwell or Frank Brangwyn paintings, still popular in that era of the 1950's at least among art students, lik me.
If adventure, without CSI Miami gore, is something you enjoy, this is a primer in good versus evil. Here, though not nearly of Academy Award quality, is good, clean, honest adventure of the sort that helped boys grow into altruistic men, something lacking in today's choices for young people, There is no eye-covering horror here, simply swashbuckling joy for boys, girls and for most parents, who spurn the kind of filth that is marketed now to the young of age or heart.
A lost Kingdom regained, a lost love rescued, a lost family of men at arms bonded and rejoined in hand-to-hand battle. For sheer splashes of costumed elegance, clanging, clashing, swordplay, this ranks close to the Errol Flynn/Raphael Sabatini favorites.
I recall waiting expectantly as a boy for the Singing Sword to hum its tune in full battle and I was not disappointed. The scoring of this film by Franz Waxman is OUTSTANDING and still sells well today on screen.
This is the pattern along with the Saturday morning serials from which Captain Comeback films like STAR WARS were derived.
I GIVE IT 4.5 STARS AS HONEST ADVENTURIST, ART STUDENT'S DELIGHT
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