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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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Jan 11, 2005

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  • Stand and pledge loyalty -- or prepare to lie cold beneath your shields. Chivalrous knight Wilfrid of Ivanhoe is determined to restore Richard the Lionhearted to England's throne.
  • Gallantry and costumed pageantry combine in this crowd-pleasing nominee for 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Robert Taylor plays the title role and Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Fontaine also star in a rousing adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's novel. The film's jousting tournament is a galloping display of steed and stout-hearted men. Most spectacular of all is the siege of Torquilstone Castle, a wave-after-wave combat of arrows, fire, boulders, battering ram and blade. To the battlements!
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    03/25/06
    Bosley Crowther
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    08/22/03
    Carol Cling
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    No review available.

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    02/04/04
    Chris Barsanti
    Chris Barsanti
    Filmcritic.com

    It's an entertaining medieval costume epic that presents an inaccurate version of literature and history.

    Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    08/22/05
    Dennis Schwartz
    Dennis Schwartz
    Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    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.

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    Emanuel Levy
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    03/27/04
    Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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    06/24/06
    Geoff Andrew
    Geoff Andrew
    Time Out

    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.

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    04/06/06
    Mark Bourne
    Mark Bourne
    DVDJournal.com

    In this ostensibly epic tale of knights and maidens, chivalry and swordfights, there is not a single actor who does not appear surpassingly bored

    Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
    01/17/05
    Matt Bailey
    Matt Bailey
    Not Coming to a Theater Near You

    I could do while watching it was giggle.

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    01/16/05
    Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
    Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
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    11/01/02
    Philip Martin
    Philip Martin
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    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).

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    04/04/05
    Steven D. Greydanus
    Steven D. Greydanus
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