Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

arthur_tafero Cornel Wilde has a reputation as a independent writer, director, actor type, in the vein of Sylvester Stallone, Woody Allen, and others. He did some fine pieces of work; the best of which was Naked Prey. He also did a pretty good job with Beach Red. But this effort was a little too big for his britches. He tried to pull off a Kirk Douglas or Mel Gibson (both successful as independent producers of Spartacus and Braveheart), but he could not do it. There was too much ham in the film from the supporting cast. More ham than in a German deli. The battle scenes were rife with mistakes (one guy is standing around with an arrow in his heart). The early love scenes are very good, and believable, but Merlin reminded me more of a rabbi than a wizard or magician. All he did was give advice. The secondary characters, except for Arthur, were just not that believable. All in all, a watchable film, but be ready to wince every once in a while.

ma-cortes A stirring tale of knights, chivalry, and the days of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur is brought to the screen with full pomp and pageantry . It deals with ARTHUR-LANCELOT-GUINEVERE triangle that brings to life again , including a sincere respect , though also fictitious , of the old legend . Set during the civil wars of 6Th-century England where rules the king Arthur (Brian Aherne) , he achieved to maintain the Christianity and civilization in the west of England , though no exactly congruent with the VI century , time was presumed to have lived but the film is developed in a high medieval panoply . Wandering swordsman Lancelot (Cornel Wilde) falls for beautiful Guinevere (Jean Wallace) , soon to be Arthur's queen . Later on , Lancelot fights evil renegade knights , Barbarians invaders and villainous Mordred , Arthur's son . Big-scale battles , tournaments , betrayals , passion , and impressive outdoors , all of them are pieces for a tremendous epic , are all here . However, it just doesn't woork , at times . The result is almost always the handsomest of films to behold and the plot will cause much eye-rolling . Dramatically , it has its moments , too , blending grandeur and intimacy . The battles scenes hold all the excitement and gore by that time the censorship allowed , which was not for the fainthearted . This period action classic features Lancelot, the bravest knight of the Round Table and the moving story of the romantic triangle starred by Cornel Wilde, who is badly miscast , and his real wife , the lovely Jean Wallace . The real-life marriage yearn , gaze and kiss intensely ; it is worth the time it takes to watch . In spite of lack real documents about legendary feats of King Arthur , allegedly in VI century King of Bretons , during XII century was created some writings by French notorious authors who romanticized the legend as Chretien of Troyes and Thomas Malory that wrote the Bretons series with their knights looking for the Holy Grail . Besides , Godofredo of Mormouth publicized in 1136 the ¨History Regnum Britanniae¨ and in XX century John Steinbeck wrote about the events of King Arthur .The motion picture was professionally directed by Cornel Wilde . Cornel Wilde, who also acted , co-produced and directed this film, as he ambiously romps some Arthurian legends in this spectacular slide of sword , blood and battles . Other movies on the matter of legends of Arthur resulted to be : ¨Knights of the round table¨(Richard Thorpe, 53) with Robert Taylor , Ava Gardner , Mel Ferrer , Stanley Baker ; the musical ¨Camelot¨ (Joshua Logan), with Franco Nero , Richard Harris , Vanessa Redgrave ; the fantastic ¨Excalibur¨ considered the best and tremendous epic (John Boorman, 81) with Nigel Terry , Helen Mirren , Nicholas Clay , Nicol Williamson , Cherie Lunghi ; ¨Merlin and the sword (Clive Donner , 85) with Malcolm McDowell , Candice Bergen , Edward Woodward; ¨Merlin¨(1998) with Sam Neill , Miranda Richardson , Rutger Hauer , Isabella Rossellini , Martin Short ; First knight¨ with Richard Gere , Sean Connery , Julia Ormond ; and recently ¨King Arthur¨(Antoine Fuqua, 2004) with Clive Owen , Stephen Dillane , Ioan Gruffud , Mikkelsen , Kiera Knightley . The picture will appeal to aficionados with chivalric ideals and historic movies fans .

DigitalRevenantX7 King Arthur sends his trusty right hand man, the knight Sir Lancelot to a rival kingdom to win the hand in marriage of Guinevere. He succeeds, but falls in love with the maiden. She marries Arthur but secretly yearns for Lancelot. After a time, they become lovers & when Arthur finds out, their friendship – sabotaged by a rival knight – becomes very strained.Originally released in the United Kingdom as Lancelot & Guinevere, this 1963 adventure film was directed by its star, Cornel Wilde. Wilde also produces & cast his wife at the time, Jean Wallace, as Guinevere.While not the definitive version of the Camelot story, Sword of Lancelot is still reasonably watchable. The film has some passable acting &, like most of Wilde's directorial efforts, filled with action scenes. The fights & battles are the showpiece of the film & are quite violent, even by 1963 standards. There is some passable plotting but the pace tends to drag a little inbetween the battles. Wilde & Wallace might be a good pair on the screen but they are both a little too old for their roles. Having said that, Sword of Lancelot is still a pretty reasonable Dark Ages adventure film, although I still prefer something like Under the Red Robe over this.

classicsoncall I've never been a fan of the medieval knight genre, and this one manages to reinforce my feelings. I just couldn't tell what they were going for in the story, and abrupt scene changes often occurred on a dime with no time at all allotted for the transition. Like early in the picture with news of King Leodogran's challenge to Arthur for each of their champions to meet in duel to decide Arthur's status as King. No sooner said than done, Sir Lancelot (Cornel Wilde) is atop a horse and going hell bent for leather against Sir Dorjak.Others on this board have mentioned the ages of the principals, something I wondered about myself. It was a little hard to fathom Lady Guinevere (Jean Wallace) looking her true age representing a King's daughter about to be betrothed. Kind of makes you glad they had that magic soap around.The one thing the film had going for it was the realistic battle scenes, with body blows taking on a gruesome countenance. The scene where Lancelot separates a warrior's shoulder was particularly graphic. At the same time though, my earlier comment applies as well to the final epic battle. At one point we see Lancelot right in the thick of things swinging away with his sword, and a minute later he's perusing the battle field from a distant vantage point as different sets of warriors enter the fray; it almost looked like there were more than two fronts to the battle.And say, what accent was Cornel Wilde going for? His character was French, but he sounded more like Russian to me. That is, when he wasn't sounding like something else altogether. I don't know, the picture just didn't do it for me, and with all that went before to test the mettle of the besieged lovers, Guinevere becomes a nun? Her speech might have been noble but not very convincing. Alas poor Lancelot, as capable as he was on the battlefield, this was one blow he never saw coming.