Actually,Richard Lionheart spent hardly one year in his country;most of the time,he was in France,where he owned big fiefs,or gone on crusades.
Adapting a Walter Scott novel and with a cast featuring Rex Harrison,Laurence Harvey ,George Sanders and the "tangible proof of Allah's existence "(dixit a local sheik) ,Virginia Mayo ,how can a director do wrong?However that's what he does in an awful screenplay.The actors are miscast and/or their parts are inept.
Who could believe Rex Harrison is Saladin?Who could believe he came to the crusaders' camp ?the secrecy with which he surrounded himself? I did not even recognize the fair-haired (?) Scottish -"never trust a Scottish " seems to be Richard's motto) Laurence Harvey who ,sadly falls in love with the king's sister Edith..
Edith,played by Mayo,is a pacifist: "fight fight fight that's all you think of Dick (sic) Plantagenêt (re-sic)! And George Sanders plays the well-known part of George -Sanders-the-suave- unctuous-villain.
A big disappointment,given all the talents involved.
Adapting a Walter Scott novel and with a cast featuring Rex Harrison,Laurence Harvey ,George Sanders and the "tangible proof of Allah's existence "(dixit a local sheik) ,Virginia Mayo ,how can a director do wrong?However that's what he does in an awful screenplay.The actors are miscast and/or their parts are inept.
Who could believe Rex Harrison is Saladin?Who could believe he came to the crusaders' camp ?the secrecy with which he surrounded himself? I did not even recognize the fair-haired (?) Scottish -"never trust a Scottish " seems to be Richard's motto) Laurence Harvey who ,sadly falls in love with the king's sister Edith..
Edith,played by Mayo,is a pacifist: "fight fight fight that's all you think of Dick (sic) Plantagenêt (re-sic)! And George Sanders plays the well-known part of George -Sanders-the-suave- unctuous-villain.
A big disappointment,given all the talents involved.