Ivanhoe
Loyal British knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe sets out on a mission to free the kidnapped King of England, Richard the Lionheart and then put him back on the throne while Richard's treacherous brother enjoys ruling in his absence.
20 January 1878, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
20 May 1897, Lima, Peru
7 January 1913, Essex, England, UK
22 October 1917, Tokyo, Japan
23 April 1894, St. Osyth, Essex, England, UK
26 November 1905, Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales, UK
25 September 1912, London, England, UK
27 February 1932, Hampstead, London, England, UK
9 November 1909, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK [now Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK]
31 January 1912, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
August 22, 2005
It's an entertaining medieval costume epic that presents an inaccurate version of literature and history.
January 17, 2005
In this ostensibly epic tale of knights and maidens, chivalry and swordfights, there is not a single actor who does not appear surpassingly bored
March 25, 2006
As Ivanhoe, Robert Taylor does a good, sturdy, manly job and George Sanders is intriguingly fluid as the emotionally torn De Bois-Guilbert.
March 25, 2009
By standrads of the 1950s, this is a passably entertaining period adventure, representing Hollywood's effort to fight the competition from the new and threatening medium of TV.
June 24, 2006
The dialogue and script are fatuously Americanised from Scott's original, but these chivalric Hollywood sagas still have a strange poetic quality about them.
April 06, 2006
While Joan Fontaine was one of MGM's marquee beauties, she must have rued the day that Ivanhoe's other damsel went to Elizabeth Taylor, who steals Fontaine's thunder with her eyes alone.
March 24, 2011
Luxe MGM historical ransacking, locationed to the nines, beautiful to look upon, but with energy lapses in the soggy script of Sir Walter Scott's epic classic.
April 04, 2005
In a way the next best thing to the real Arthurian classic that Hollywood never made, with the added plus of Robin Hood and his Merry Men (if only Warrender weren't so stiff).
March 26, 2009
Ivanhoe is a great romantic adventure, mounted extravagantly, crammed with action, and emerges as a spectacular feast.
January 16, 2005
I could do while watching it was giggle.
