Feb 25 movie: Ivanhoe. Shayne, Lisa and I got together to watch this. What fun! It was a grand epic with lots of sword fighting, conflict between Saxons and Normans, the rescue of Richard the Lionhearted, a jousting tournament, and a great cast (notably Joan Fontaine, George Sanders and Elizabeth Taylor). They were clearly going for the feel of The Adventures of Robin Hood, in fact the two movies tell overlapping stories and Robin of Locksley is a minor character here. Ivanhoe didn't quite reach the heights of the earlier film (perhaps because star Robert Taylor was too serious, he didn't have the sense of humor that made Errol Flynn such a brilliant swashbuckler hero) but it was a good movie in its own right. Now if Ivanhoe had had Alan Hale, then maybe it could have given The Adventures of Robin Hood a run for its money!
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