Prince Valiant
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Movie Reviews of Prince Valiant
Movie Review: no extras
Summary: 3 Stars
the print itself is fine bad there are no extras on it like the making ofMovie Review: High expectations, low talent
Summary: 2 Stars
I have always been a sucker for a knight-in-shining armour movie, but with this film, even as a child, I had to draw the line. Robert Wagner is a bad actor, always has been, always will be. His Aleta, Janet Leigh is beautiful, graceful, and eager, but even she cannot arouse from our Sir Valiant more than his open-mouthed, handsome, vacant stare. James Mason, the consumate actor, must have wondered what he had done to deserve working with such amateurs. Still, as a child, I was enthralled and thrilled by the sets, costumes, and derring-go. It was just the wooden young man as Valiant that set my teeth on edge. I was much happier to curl on the couch and read my grandfather's original news paper Sunday comics collection of the Prince Valiant adventures, along with his passionate and adventurous family, instead!Movie Review: Not exactly Prince Valiant
Summary: 2 Stars
This adaptation of Harold Foster's fine comic strip is quite disappointing. While the film has high production values -- good costumes and sets and some engaging action -- the story is slow (and departs annoyingly and unnecessarily from the strip) and the actors preposterous. Robert Wagner is especially miscast in the lead role. He spends most of the movie scowling, or looking confused. Sterling Hayden is an amusingly odd choice for Gawaine: an Arthurian hero via the wild west. I can't recommend this to any but the most die-hard swashbuckler aficionado.Movie Review: Disappointment
Summary: 2 Stars
As a great fan of the Prince Valiant comic strip, I was eager to
see this film. If only the producers had spent as much on writers and research as they spent on locations and photography they might have had something other than camp. You will get to see Stirling Hayden before he learned to act and Vikings out of a parody of Wagnerian opera. If you want sword-play, plot and real acting, with authenticity and stunning scenery watch "The Vikings".
Movie Review: Mystery Science Theater Material
Summary: 1 Stars
Robert Wagner 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.