Richard the Lionheart ( King Richard and the Crusaders ) is an American film of David Butler released in 1954 after Walter Scott’s eponymous novel.
This film is a remake of Chester Withey’s film Richard the Lion-Hearted , released in 1923 and in France the following year under the title The Spirit of Chivalry . This is an adaptation of the historical novel of Walter Scott’s The Talisman ( The Talisman ), the second volume of the series ” Stories of the Crusades ” ( Tales of the Crusaders ), published the same day as the first volume, The betrothed ( the betrothed ), the, whose action takes place at the end of the twelfth century , during the Third Crusade (1189-1192), and staged the confrontation between the King of England Richard Lionheart and Sultan Saladin .
Scott’s first idea is to show a cruel and violent Richard the Lionheart – defects that Westerners readily lend to Eastern Sultans – in the face of a cautious and prudent Saladin – qualities that Westerners more readily attribute to their own sovereigns. Despite the contrast in the characters, the two men assault knightly virtues such as bravery and generosity 1 .
Synopsis
Richard the Lionheart manages, during the Third Crusade , to hunt the infidels from the Holy Land …
Technical sheet
- Title: Richard the Lionheart
- Original title: King Richard and the Crusaders
- Director: David Butler
- Producer: Henry Blanke
- Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Writers: John Twist from Walter Scott’s novel
- Music: Max Steiner
- Photography: J. Peverell Marley
- Artistic direction: Bertram Tuttle
- Costumes: Marjorie Best
- Editing: Irene Morra
- Country of origin: United States
- Format: Colors (Warnercolor)
- Genre: Adventure
- Duration: 114 minutes
- Release date: August 7, 1954
Distribution
- Rex Harrison ( VF : Jacques Erwin ) : Saladin
- Virginia Mayo (VF: Claire Guibert ) : Lady Edith Plantagenet
- George Sanders ( VF : Marc Valbel ) : Richard I st of England
- Laurence Harvey ( VF : Rene Arrieu ) : Sir Kenneth of the Leopard
- Robert Douglas ( VF : Claude Peran ) : Sir Giles Amaury
- Michael Pate ( VF : Roger Rudel ) : Conrad of Montferrat
- Paula Raymond : Bérangère of Navarre
- Lester Matthews ( VF : Abel Jacquin ) : Archbishop of Tire / Narrator
- Anthony Eustrel : Baron de Vaux
- Henry Corden : Philip II of France
- Wilton Graff ( VF : Pierre Morin ) : Leopold V of Austria
- Nejla Ates : Moor dancer
- Nick Cravat : Nectobanus
- Leslie Bradley : The captain of the guards
- Bruce Lester : a guard
- Peter Julien Ortiz : a guard
- Lumsden Hare , Gavin Muir (uncredited): Physicists
- Rudolph Anders (uncredited): Austrian Knight
- Narration (VF): Roland Menard
Notes and references
- ↑ “Introduction” by Walter Scott, The Talisman , Phoebus, 2007, “Libretto,” p. 9.