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 Guide
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
King Arthur establishes the greatest reign England has ever seen through peace and prosperity, and along for the ride are his indispensable Knights of the Round Table, particularly Sir Lancelot. Then, Arthur finds himself a bride, the beautiful Guenivere. While she loves Arthur, she also loves Lancelot and though Lancelot repeatedly fights it, he loves her, too. Treachery is brewing as the evil Morgan le Fay and her knight Sir Modred work to trap them. So begins the decline and eventual fall of Arthur and Camelot. At the end, Arthur, and therefore England, fall in battle against Mordred and his men. Lancelot and Mordred then enter an epic fight, resulting in Mordred's death. Lancelot goes back to the hall of the round table where Parcifal sees the Holy Grail.
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