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Knights of the Round Table 1953

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 115 min

genre: adventure

director: Richard Thorpe

Score: 4 / 10

Knights of the Round Table is a 1953 British adventure historical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in England and Ireland. Directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman, it was the first film in CinemaScope made by the studio. The screenplay was by Talbot Jennings, Jan Lustig and Noel Langley from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, first published in 1485 by William Caxton.

Plot

With Britain in anarchy, warring overlords Arthur Pendragon and his half-sister Morgan LeFay meet as arranged by the sorcerer Merlin to discuss how to end the bloodshed. Merlin leads them to Excalibur, a sword embedded in an anvil and stone and says that according to legend, whoever can remove the sword shall be King of England. Morgan's lover Modred attempts to draw the sword from the anvil and stone and fails, while Arthur removes the sword easily.

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author	Jan Lustig Noel Langley
contentLocation	England
director	Richard Thorpe
editor	Frank Clarke
genre	adventure historical
keywords	a select group of knights amesbury amesbury abbey anglo-scottish border annales cambriae battle of camlann bloodshed civil war death in childbirth death sentence elaine of corbenic england's border with scotland excalibur grieve holy grail how to kidnap king arthur king of england knights of the round table modred mordred morgan lefay morgause one night round table sibling voice voice of god wound ywain
musicBy	Miklós Rózsa
nomination	Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Sound
producer	Pandro S. Berman
publisher	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer