#Most violent medieval movies movie#
#Most violent medieval movies tv#

The Flame and the Arrow (1950) - Burt Lancaster led this fun-filled, acrobatic movie. You just have to get past that awful haircut on Prince Valiant, which is why, I think, Robert Wagner was embarrassed by it.Ĥ.

#Most violent medieval movies movie#

This movie had an all-star cast, which is one of the reasons I loved it so much. Under the eye of Sir Gawain (Sterling Hayden), Valiant trains to become a knight, falls for a princess (Janet Leigh) and unmasks the Black Knight (James Mason). As he travels to Camelot, Valiant discovers the Black Knight, a villain conspiring with Sligon to destroy King Arthur. First off, I grew up reading the adventures of Prince Valiant every Sunday in the comics, so it’s a part of my own personal history. The plot was your basic “boy vows to become a knight and restore his family honor” gimmick… “After the evil King Sligon exiles his family from Scandia, Prince Valiant (Robert Wagner) vows to become a member of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table in order to return his father to the throne. Prince Valiant (1954) - Robert Wagner called this film an “embarrassment” but I can’t help loving this movie. See my previous blog on King Arthur and Pop Culture for references to those movies.ĥ. *NOTE: I am only ranking movies made before 1970, so Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Excalibur will not be included. So, here are my TOP 5 classic medieval fantasy movies. It may not have been practical, nor historically accurate, but it was colorful (as this was the beginning of technicolor movies) and oh so fun to watch. You can’t think about a character like Robin Hood and not think of Errol Flynn swinging through Sherwood Forest in those classic green tights. It was some of those classic movies that influenced me as a writer.

My kids used to hate that because I’d make them watch Them or Key Largo before American Idol.

#Most violent medieval movies tv#

I’ll put on Turner Classic Movies before the “Big 3” prime time TV (ABC, NBC, CBS) any day. My parents were not big fans of the modern cinema so, in my house, it was John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, Clark Gable, and Judy Garland ONLY! It has really influenced me, in both my writing and what I watch today. With Žižka's final words in 'Medieval,' he is able to at least express hope about one nation's survival through all the troubles of that age.I love classic Hollywood movies. For too long, the Bohemian territories (alongside much of the rest of Europe) suffered as a result of the Western Schism, the many ensuing civil wars, and the general tyranny of medieval autocrats. While the dialogue that opens 'Medieval' sets up the desperate, depressing struggle that triggers the film's drama, the dialogue that closes the movie sets up the resolution. Hope.' Like Caine's, Foster's monologue unfurls over footage of Žižka riding into battle, but this time - in the movie's final few seconds - the words and image leave a promising impression on the viewer. This time, Foster narrates, but instead of Boresh's 'Violence. The speech is a suitably bleak introduction to the movie, and it has an equally apt twin monologue at the end of the movie. Power.' And he proceeds to explain how everything has 'changed for the worst' in his home country of Bohemia following recent political and religious upheavals.