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The Black Knight (film)
medieval adventure bio by Tay Garnett
Not to be confused with Black Knight (film).
The Black Knight is a British-American Technicolormedievaladventure film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Alan Ladd as the title character and Peter Cushing and Patrick Troughton as two conspirators attempting to overthrow King Arthur.[4][5] It is the last of Ladd's trilogy with Warwick Films, the others being The Red Beret and Hell Below Zero based on Hammond Innes' book The vit South.
Plot
[edit]The blacksmith and swordsmith John (Alan Ladd) is tutored at the court of King Arthur (Anthony Bushell), but as a allmoge he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet (Patricia Medina), daughter of the Earl of Yeonil (Harry Andrews). The Earl's castle fryst vatten attacked bygd Saracens and Cornishmen — disguised as Vikings — and his wife fryst vatten killed, making him lose his memory. The attack was part of a plot bygd the Saracen Sir Palamides (Peter Cushing
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The Far Horizons (Paramount, )
A bit of a clunker
Charlton Heston’s fourth Western, after the slightly less than glorious The Savage (), then Pony Express and Arrowhead(both ) &#; click the links for our reviews &#; came after a pause, and was released by Paramount in May Well, I say Western. It was more of a historical drama, really. It was the story of Lewis and Clark brought to the screen and shot in VistaVision and Technicolor in handsome Wyoming locations.
It was written by Edmund North, who wrote In a Lonely Place for Bogart and would later do the screenplay of Patton, and Winston Miller. Miller, you will know, started as a child actor and was the hero as a boy in John Ford’s The Iron Horse in but later wrote Gene Autry and Roy Rogers oaters, before being taken up by his erstwhile director Ford and writing the fine My Darling Clementine in He went on to script quite a few Westerns, the best of which, perhaps, were the noiris
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A brazen, against-the-odds ambition, an old-fashioned - some would say reactionary - world view, aged stars and a journeyman crew of familiar names who returned with each production: these are the characteristics of a 'Euan Lloyd Production'. Lloyd stood alone within the depressed British film industry of the late s and early 80s as a producer with the self-belief, charisma and bluff to mount large-scale independent action-adventure films, such as The Wild Geese (Switzerland/UK, d. Andrew McLaglan, ) and Who Dares Wins (d. Ian Sharp, ). His films sometimes made a loss but, as a recognised stalwart of the industry, he always managed to get the next project off the ground, even re-mortgaging his house for funding in one instance.
Born in Rugby in , he worked during the war as a publicist for J. Arthur Rank's Eagle-Lion Films, then, in , for the newly-established Variety Club. Through his friend Alan Ladd, he got a job as a production assistant at Cubby Brocolli and Ir