Movies:
Knights of the Round Table
DVD Release
- Release Date: 2003
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- All new introduction by Mel Ferrer
- Premiere newsreel vintage concert hall musical short Overture to the Merry Wives of Windsor
- King Arthur at the movies essay
- Trailers of this and other Arthurian legend movies Camelot and Excalibur
- Interactive menus
- Scene access
- Rating:
- Genre: Adventure
- Movie Type: Costume Adventure, Romantic Adventure
- Themes: Knights and Ladies
- Director: Richard Thorpe
- Main Cast: Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer, Anne Crawford, Stanley Baker, Gabriel Woolf
- Release Year: 1953
- Country: US/UK
- Run Time: 106 minutes
Plot
MGM's first CinemaScope production was the lavishly appointed Knights of the Round Table. Without overlapping into any copyrighted material (specifically T.H. White's The Once and Future King), the film spins a lucid account of the King Arthur legend. The good king is played by Mel Ferrer, while Queen Guenevere is essayed by Ava Gardner. Arthur's efforts to create a perfect society in Camelot are compromised when Guenevere falls in love with trusted knight Sir Lancelot (Robert Taylor). The ambitious Mordred (Stanley Baker) uses his knowledge of the Queen's indiscretion to destroy both Camelot and King Arthur's round table. Most of the story material in Knights of the Round Table is lifted from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideCast
- Ava Gardner - Guinevere
- Robert Taylor - Sir Lancelot of the Lake
- Mel Ferrer - King Arthur
- Anne Crawford - Morgan Le Fay
- Stanley Baker - Sir Modred
- Gabriel Woolf - Percival
Felix Aylmer - Merlin; Maureen Swanson - Elaine; Anthony Forwood - Gareth; Robert Urquhart - Sir Gawaine; Niall MacGinnis - Green Knight; Ann Hanslip - Nan; Jill Clifford - Bronwyn; Stephen Vercoe - Agravaine; John Brooking - Bedivere; Peter Gawthorne - Bishop; Alan Tilvern - Steward; John Sherman - Lambert; Mary Germaine - Brigid; Martin Wyldeck - John; Barry Mackay - Green Knight's First Squire; Derek Tansley - Green Knight's Squire; Roy Russell - Leogrance; Howard Marion-Crawford - Simon; Dana Wynter - Vivien
