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Director Gordon Douglas’s 1948 historical adventure film The Black Arrow [The Black Arrow Strikes] is based on the novel The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson, and stars Louis Hayward, […]
It’s the powers of good, represented by sorcerer’s apprentice Galen (Peter MacNicol), against one of the screen’s most impressive dragons, Vermithrax Pejorative, in the dark ages of the sixth-century kingdom of Urland. Director Matthew Robbins’s […]
The 1984 adventure film Sword of the Valiant is a rerun of the story from Mallory’s epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Director Stephen Weeks wanted Mark Hamill as Gawain, but the producers […]
Director Stephen Weeks’s 1973 adventure fantasy Gawain and the Green Knight is an adequate low-budget attempt to re-create the medieval tale from Mallory’s epic poem of the squire Gawain (Murray Head) who accepts the swordsman’s […]
Director Henry Koster’s 1955 historical drama The Virgin Queen provides a useful showcase for Bette Davis to re-create her superb Queen Elizabeth I characterisation from the classic The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), […]
Chris Pine of Los Angeles, California, USA, channels his inner Scot as the 14th Century Scottish Outlaw/ King Robert the Bruce, who makes a reasonable claim to the Scottish throne and then desperately tries to […]
Another entertainingly bad wig, another entertainingly bad movie from Nicolas Cage, teaming up with Hellboy’s Ron Perlman as 14th-century knights. Behmen (Cage) and Felson (Perlman) are ordered on a mission to escort a girl (Claire Foy) accused of being […]