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Prince Valiant

Prince Valiant

Movie · 1997 · 15 people

Anthony Hickox directed Prince Valiant, an independent sword-and-sorcery picture released in 1997 and co-produced by the United Kingdom, Germany and Ireland. Hal Foster's long-running Prince Valiant strip is its loose source, and some of the strip's panels appear in the film itself. It reached Turkish cinemas as Romantik Şövalye on 6 August 1999.

The story is set in King Arthur's Camelot. Morgan Le Fey, Arthur's wicked sister, wants a book containing the world's most powerful spells and uses Viking soldiers to get it. The key is the sword Excalibur, which is kept at Camelot. At the Knights of the Round Table's traditional tournament, Sir Gawain challenges Arn, Prince of Ord, to a duel for the right to marry Princess Iliene of Wales, but is wounded. The young Valiant, closest to him, steps in to save his honour; just as he is about to win, Excalibur vanishes, stolen. Valiant must then fight the Vikings and the scheming sorceress to save the kingdom, finding love and his ancestry along the way.

The cast includes Stephen Moyer, Katherine Heigl, Thomas Kretschmann, Joanna Lumley, Ron Perlman, Edward Fox, Udo Kier and Warwick Davis. Hickox shares the script credit with Michael Frost Beckner and Carsten H.W. Lorenz; Bernd Eichinger and Tom Rosenberg produced it.

DirectorAnthony Hickox

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Thomas Kretschmann Thomas Kretschmann Actor · 64 years old Udo Kier Udo Kier Actor · died at 81 Stephen Moyer Katherine Heigl Edward Fox Joanna Lumley Ron Perlman Anthony Hickox Zach Galligan Warwick Davis Gavan O'Herlihy Marcus Schenkenberg Walter Gotell Guy Farley Karen Mayo-Chandler

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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

King Arthur, Excalibur, the Knights of the Round Table: a fairy-tale world that children can step into straight away. The wicked sorceress and the Vikings draw a clear line between good and bad, which makes the story easy for younger viewers to follow. Since there are duels and battles, it is best to stay close by when watching with very small children. A good weekend pick for school-age kids.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

A tournament, a duel, a stolen Excalibur, Vikings and a scheming sorceress: a lot of material packed into one film. That density keeps the pace from sagging, but it also never lets any conflict properly breathe. Add a romance and a secret about his ancestry, and parts of it feel rushed. Fine if you want a light adventure; just don't expect an epic battle film.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Using some of Hal Foster's panels as they are is a smart choice, an open nod to the source that makes the link between the strip and the screen visible. But a loose adaptation has its price: trying to carry the accumulated story of a long-running strip into one film risks turning the plot into a chain of incidents. The experienced supporting cast, from Ron Perlman to Joanna Lumley, looks striking on paper, though whether so many different registers settle into one style is debatable. As an independent sword-and-sorcery picture its ambitions are modest, and so is the result.

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