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Ivanhoe (1952)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:7
Rotten:3
Average Rating:5.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: One man's efforts to restore Richard the Lion Hearted to his throne provides many beautiful panoramic scenes of the English countryside. Based on Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel. Academy Award... One man's efforts to restore Richard the Lion Hearted to his throne provides many beautiful panoramic scenes of the English countryside. Based on Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Picture. [More]
Starring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Starring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer
Director: Richard Thorpe
Director: Richard Thorpe
Composer: Miklos Rozsa
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Release:
Jan 11, 2005
Reviews for Ivanhoe
By standrads of the 1950s, this is a passably entertaining period adventure, representing Hollywood's effort to fight the competition from the new and threatening medium of TV.
While Joan Fontaine was one of MGM's marquee beauties, she must have rued the day that Ivanhoe's other damsel went to Elizabeth Taylor, who steals Fontaine's thunder with her eyes alone.
It's an entertaining medieval costume epic that presents an inaccurate version of literature and history.
In a way the next best thing to the real Arthurian classic that Hollywood never made, with the added plus of Robin Hood and his Merry Men (if only Warrender weren't so stiff).
In this ostensibly epic tale of knights and maidens, chivalry and swordfights, there is not a single actor who does not appear surpassingly bored
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