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Ivanhoe (1951)
Director: Richard Thorpe
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From Time Out Film Guide
One of the vintage MGM costume epics from the early '50s when Thorpe was making countless medieval movies 'over at Metro' (this usually meant on location in England). Ivanhoe is one of the best, with Robert Taylor in the title role, Elizabeth Taylor as Rebecca, and Fontaine as Rowena. The dialogue and script are fatuously Americanised from Scott's original, but these chivalric Hollywood sagas still have a strange poetic quality about them, perhaps partly because of the way they unscrupulously and inaccurately ransacked literature and history for ideas and images.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Thorpe
Producer: Pandro S Berman
Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Finlay Currie, Guy Rolfe, Robert Douglas, Emlyn Williams full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 107 mins
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