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The Black Arrow [The Black Arrow Strikes] *** (1948, Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 11,819

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, […]

Jan, 01

Dragonslayer **** (1981, Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 8746

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 […]

Jul, 22

Sword of the Valiant ** (1984, Miles O’Keeffe, Cyrielle Clair, Leigh Lawson, Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, John Rhys-Davies) – Classic Movie Review 8492

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 […]

May, 22

Gawain and the Green Knight ** (1973, Murray Head, Ciaran Madden, Nigel Green) – Classic Movie Review 8491

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 […]

May, 21

The Virgin Queen *** (1955, Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Herbert Marshall, Jay Robinson, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 7708

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), […]

Oct, 27

Outlaw/ King ** (2018, Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Florence Pugh) – Movie Review

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 […]

Oct, 17

Season of the Witch ** (2011, Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy) – Classic Movie Review 4610

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 […]

Nov, 08

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