Knights of the Round Table

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

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, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Subtitle: English, French, Spanish
• Features:
  • • cc 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

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Nominated Best Color Art Direction - 1953 (John Jarvis, Alfred Junge, Hans Peters)
•     Nominated Best Sound - 1953 (A.W. Watkins)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  Richard Thorpe

• Producer:

  Pandro S. Berman

• Screenwriter:

  Talbot Jennings, Noel Langley, Jan Lustig

• Book Author:

  Thomas Malory

• Cinematographer:

  Stephen Dade, Freddie Young

• Composer (Music Score):

  Miklos Rozsa

• Editor:

  Frank Clarke

• Art Director:

  Alfred Junge, Hans Peters

• Costume Designer:

  Roger Furse

• Makeup:

  Charles Parker

• Special Effects:

  Tom Howard