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Prince Valiant

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Original title

Prince Valiant

Year

1954

Running time

100 min.

Country

United States

Director

Henry Hathaway

Screenwriter

Dudley Nichols. Comic: Hal Foster

Cast

Music

Franz Waxman

Cinematography

Lucien Ballard

Producer

20th Century Fox

Genre

Adventure. Fantasy | Middle Ages. Based on a Comic. Sword and Sorcery. Vikings

Synopsis

Cartoonist Hal Foster's medieval hero, the Scandinavian Prince Valiant, comes to the screen in all his Dutch-bob-haircut glory in this 1954 film directed by Henry Hathaway (Kiss of Death). Robert Wagner plays the title role and does a bang-up job of it, convincingly portraying the heroic prince as he enters the court of King Arthur (Brian Aherne) in England and becomes (with some tutelage from Sir Gawain, played by Sterling Hayden) a Knight of the Round Table. Determined to restore his dethroned family to their proper seat back home, Valiant takes on the Black Knight (James Mason), who plans to do away with Arthur and then finish his misdeeds back in Scandia. Under such pressure, the prince, quite understandably, falls in love with Princess Aleta (Janet Leigh). Hathaway proves to be the perfect director for this material, as his fluid skill, moderate forcefulness, and adaptability to genre necessities keep the film from teetering too far in the direction of pulp--or self-seriousness.

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Rankings Position

#83 Best Comic Book Movies

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