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SCAdian Movies: King Arthur and Robin Hood
Two of the most popular and enduring legends of the Middle Ages are those of King Arthur and Robin Hood. Therefore, no list of SCAdian-interest films would be complete without a special dedication to this canon of Medieval movies.
- Arthurian
- Robin Hood
In parentheses I have put any alternate titles the movie may have, the country of origin (if not the US or Great Brittain), the date, the director, some of the cast, and sometimes the studio. Eventually I will be including capsulized descriptions, lengthy reviews and essays, and scanning some images.
If you wish to add to this project, please e-mail your addition (use the link at the bottom of the page).
HOW TO USE THE MARKINGS:
! = a definite must-see for anyone with SCA related interests.
+ = good to see if you've already seen or if you can't find the must-sees.
% = either a weak movie with a SCA-related theme, or a good movie of limited SCA-related interest.
- = only for the most desparate completist.
I have reviewed a number of these movies on Amazon.com and Allwatchers.com. You can go to those individual reviews by clicking on the AMZ for Amazon and the ALW for Allwatchers.
- ARTHURIAN
- Arthur the King (Merlin and the Sword, TV '85 Clive Donner. Malcom McDowell, Cancice Bergen, Edward Woodward, Dyan Cannon, Lucy Gutteridge, Rupert Everett, Liam Neeson, Michael Gough, Maryam D'Abo)
- The Black Knight ('54 Tay Garnett. Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, Andre Morell, Peter Cushing)
- A Conneticut Yankee ('31 David Butler. Will Rogers, Maureen O'Sullivan, Myrna Loy, Frank Albertson, William Farnum)
- A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ('40 Bing Crosby, Rhonda Flemming, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Wilcoxon, Murvyn Vye, Virginia Field. Musical)
- + A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (TV '89 Mel Damski. Keshisa Knight Pulliam, Jean Marsh)
- ! Excalibur ('81 John Boorman. Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Patrick Stewart, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson)AMZ ALW
- + First Knight ('95 Jerry Zucker. Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross, John Gielgud) ALW
- % Guinevere ('93 Jud Taylor. Sheryl Lee, Noah Wylie, Sean Patrick Flanery, Brid Brennan, James Faulkner, Donald Pleasance. Based on the novels by Persia Woolley)
- A Kid in King Arthur's Court ('95 Michael Gottlieb. Joss Ackland, Art Malik, Paloma Baeza, Kate Winslet, Ron Moody)
- ! King Arthur the Young Warlord (BBC, Sidney Heyers, Patrick Jackson, Peter Sasdy. Oliver Tobias, John Watson, Brian Blessed. A bunch of episodes of a BBC tv series edited together)
- + A Knight in King Arthur's Court (TV,'98 Whoopie Goldberg, Michael York, Ian Richardson, Amanda Donahoe)
- ! Knights of the Round Table ('53 Richard Thorpe. Mel Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, Anne Crawford, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis) AMZ ALW
- Lancelot Du Lac (Le Graal, France,'74 Robert Bresson. My father, Claude Jean-Pierre La Coudre, is in this movie. To see a picture of him in his armor, click here.) ALW
- Lovespell (Tristan and Isolde, '79 Tom Donovan. Richard Burton, Kate Mulgrew, Nicholas Clay, Cyril Cusack)
- The Mighty ('98, Sharon Stone)
- ! Merlin ('97 TV, Sam Neil, Isabella Rosselini,Rutger Hauer, Martin Short, Helena Bonham-Carter, John Guilgud)
- % Merlin ('92 Paul Hunt. Peter Phelps, Richard Lynch, James Hong, Nadia Cameron)
- + Merlin, the Magic Begins (TV,'98 Jason Connery)
- ! Monty Python and the Holy Grail ('75 Monty Python)
- ! Prince Valiant ('54 Henry Hathaway. Robert Wagner, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Debra Pageet, Sterling Hayden, Victor McLaglen, Donald Crisp, Brian Ahern) ALW
- + Prince Valiant ('97 Anthony Hickox. Stephen Moyer, Jodie Kidd, Katherine Heigl, Thoma Kretschmann, Edward Fox, Udo Kier, Warwick Davis, Ben Pullen, Zach Galligan, Marcus Schenckenberg, Joanna Lumley, Ron Perlman) ALW
- Siege of the Saxons ('63 Nathan Juran. Jannette Scott, Ronald Lewis, Ronald Howard, John Laurie)
- ! Sword in the Stone ('62 Disney animated)
- + Sword of Lancelot (Lancelot and Guenevere,'63 Cornel Wilde. C. W., Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne, George Baker)
- + Sword of the Valiant (Gawaine and the Green Knight,'85 Stephen Weeks. Miles O'Keefe, Cyrielle Claire, Leigh Lawson, Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Peter Cushing, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies) ALW
- % Teklab (TV, Greg Evigan, Michael York, William Shatner)
- Unidentified Flying Oddball (A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court '79 Russ Mayberry. Dennis Duggan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody, Kenneth Moore, Shelia White)
- ROBIN HOOD
- ! The Adventures of Robin Hood ('38 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Alan Hale, Patric Knowles, Montagu Love)
- The Bandit of Sherwood Forest ('46 George Sherman, Henry Levin. Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond, Edgar Buchanan)
- A Challenge for Robin Hood (Hammer '68 C. M. Pennington-Richards. Barrie Ingham, James Hayter, Leon Greene, Peter Blythe, Gay Hamilton, Alfie Bass)
- ! Ivanhoe ('52 Richard Thorpe. Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Emlyn Williams, George Sanders, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer, Francis de Wolff, Guy Rolfe) ALW
- Ivanhoe (TV '82 Douglas Camfield. James Mason, Anthony Andrews, Sam Neill, Michael Hordern, Olivia Hussey, Lysette Anthony, Julian Glover, John Rhys-Davies) ALW
- Ivanhoe (A&E, 6 hours)
- ! The Legend of Young Robin Hood (David Warbeck, Kathleen Byron, Dan Meaden, Ciaran Madden)
- Men of Sherwood Forest ('54 Val Guest. Don Taylor, Reginald Beckwith, Eileen Moore, David King Wood)
- Prince of Theives ('48 Howard Bretherton. Jon Hall, Patricia Morrison, Adele Jergens, Alan Mowbray)
- ! Robin and Marian ('76 Richard Lester. Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Nicol Willamson, Richard Harris, Denholm Elliott, Ian Holm)
- ! Robin Hood ('91 John Irvin. Patrick Bergen, Uma Thurman, Jeroen Krabbe, Jurgen Prochnow, Edward Fox) AMZ ALW
- + Robin Hood ('73 Disney animated)
- + Robin Hood (TV series with Richard Greene, Bernadette O'Farrell, Alexander Gauge, Donald Pleasance)
- + Robin Hood: Men in Tights ('93 Mel Brooks. Carey Elwes, Richard Lewis, Amy Yasbeck, Tracy Ullman, Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Dick Van Patten, Isaac Hayes)
- + Robin Hood, Prince of Theives ('91 Kevin Reynolds. Kevin Costner, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman, Bian Blessed)
- Robin Hood...The Legend
- ! Robin Hood & The Sorcerer ('83 Michael Praed, Anthony Valentine, Nickolas Grace)
- ! The Swords of Wayland ('83 Michael Praed, Rula Lenska, Nickolas Grace)
- ! Herne's Son ('85 Jason Connery, Oliver Cotton, Nickolas Grace)
- ! The Time of the Wolf ('85 Jason Connery, Richard O'Brien, Nickolas Grace)
- Rogues of Sherwood Forest ('50 Gordon Douglas. John Derek, Diana Lynn, George Macready, Alan Hale)
- Sword of Sherwood Forest (Hammer '60 Terence Fisher. Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Oliver Reed)
- The Last Unicorn (Animated,'82 Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass. Voices of Alan Akin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Lee, Keenan Wynn, Rene Auberjons)
- The Son of Robin Hood ('59 George Sherman. Al Hedison, June Laverick, David Farrar)
- The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men ('52 Ken Anakin. Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch)
- + Tales of Robin Hood ('51 James Tinling. Robert Clarke, Mary Hatcher, Paul Cavanaugh, Wade Crosby)
- ! Time Bandits ('81 Monty Python allumni, Sean Connery, Shelly Duval, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan, David Warner, Kenny Baker, David Rappaport)
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