Knights of the Round Table (Film)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Knights of the Round Table is a Technicolor Cinemascope 1953 historical film made by MGM. Directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman, it was the first film in Cinemascope made by that studio. The screenplay was by Talbot Jennings, Jan Lustig and Noel Langley from the book Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory. The film was the second in an unofficial trilogy made by the same director and producer and starring Robert Taylor, coming between Ivanhoe and The Adventures of Quentin Durward. All three were made at MGM's British Studios at Elstree, near London. The cast included Robert Taylor as Sir Lancelot, Ava Gardner as Queen Guinevere, Mel Ferrer as King Arthur, Stanley Baker as Mordred, Anne Crawford as Morgan Le Fay, Felix Aylmer as Merlin and uncredited appearances by Laurence Harvey and Dana Wynter.... Mehr