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SCAdian Movies: King Arthur and Robin Hood

or What To Do If You Can't Read

Two of the most popular and enduring legends of the Middle Ages are those of King Arthur and Robin Hood. Therefore, no list of SCAdian-interest films would be complete without a special dedication to this canon of Medieval movies. Ivanhoe was written in the 19th century, but It does have Robin Hood in it and established much of the modern interpretation of the middle ages.

Arthurian

Robin Hood

Ivanhoe

In parentheses I have put any alternate titles the movie may have, the country of origin (if not the US or Great Brittain), the date, the director, some of the cast, and sometimes the studio. Eventually I will be including capsulized descriptions, lengthy reviews and essays, and scanning some images.

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HOW TO USE THE MARKINGS:

! = a definite must-see for anyone with SCA related interests.

+ = good to see if you've already seen or if you can't find the must-sees.

% = either a weak movie with a SCA-related theme, or a good movie of limited SCA-related interest.

- = only for the most desparate completist.

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ARTHURIAN (See also Documantaries)

Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table (Animated '90. Adapted from TV Series from '66)
Arthur the King (Merlin and the Sword, TV '85 Clive Donner. Malcom McDowell, Cancice Bergen, Edward Woodward, Dyan Cannon, Lucy Gutteridge, Rupert Everett, Liam Neeson, Michael Gough, Maryam D'Abo)
The Black Knight ('54 Tay Garnett. Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, Andre Morell, Peter Cushing)
! Camelot (Richard Harris)
Celtic Legends: Arthurian Legends ('99)
A Conneticut Yankee ('31 David Butler. Will Rogers, Maureen O'Sullivan, Myrna Loy, Frank Albertson, William Farnum)
A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ('40 Bing Crosby, Rhonda Flemming, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Wilcoxon, Murvyn Vye, Virginia Field. Musical)
+ A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (TV '89 Mel Damski. Keshisa Knight Pulliam, Jean Marsh)
The Crystal Cave - Lessons From the Teachings of Merlin ('99 Deepak Chopra. Joanna Cassidy, Martin Sheen, Robert Guillaume)
! Excalibur ('81 John Boorman. Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Patrick Stewart, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson)AMZ ALW
The Excalibur Kid ('98 James Head. Jason McSkimming, Mak Fyfe, Fran�ois Klanfer, Francesca Scorsone, Mihnea Trusca, Serban Celea)
+ First Knight ('95 Jerry Zucker. Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross, John Gielgud) ALW
% Guinevere ('93 Jud Taylor. Sheryl Lee, Noah Wylie, Sean Patrick Flanery, Brid Brennan, James Faulkner, Donald Pleasance. Based on the novels by Persia Woolley)
A Kid in King Arthur's Court ('95 Michael Gottlieb. Joss Ackland, Art Malik, Paloma Baeza, Kate Winslet, Ron Moody)
King Arthur (2004 Antoine Fuqua. Clive Owen, Stephen Dillane, Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, Stellan Skarsg�rd, Ray Winstone, Hugh Dancy, Ray Stevenson, Joel Edgerton)
! King Arthur: His Life and Legends (A&E Biography '87 Kevin Burns, Lawrence Williams)
! King Arthur the Young Warlord (BBC, Sidney Heyers, Patrick Jackson, Peter Sasdy. Oliver Tobias, John Watson, Brian Blessed. A bunch of episodes of a BBC tv series edited together)
+ A Knight in Camelot (TV,'98 Whoopie Goldberg, Michael York, Ian Richardson, Amanda Donahoe)
! Knights of the Round Table ('53 Richard Thorpe. Mel Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, Anne Crawford, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis) AMZ ALW
Lancelot Du Lac (Lancelot of the Lake, Le Graal, France '74 Robert Bresson. My father, Claude Jean-Pierre La Coudre, is in this movie. To see a picture of him in his armor, click here.) ALW
Legends of the Isles: Merlin/Fairies & Leprechauns ('98)
Robin Hood/King Arthur ('98)
Lovespell (Tristan and Isolde, '79 Tom Donovan. Richard Burton, Kate Mulgrew, Nicholas Clay, Cyril Cusack)
% Merlin (Merlin: The True Story of Magic '92 Paul Hunt. Peter Phelps, Richard Lynch, James Hong, Nadia Cameron)
Merlin (TV Series '80 Armin Dahlen. Thomas Ohrner, Ekkehardt Belle, Dieter Brammer, Achim Geisler, Britta Fischer, Roman Fromlowitz)
! Merlin ('97 TV, Sam Neil, Isabella Rosselini,Rutger Hauer, Martin Short, Helena Bonham-Carter, John Guilgud)
Merlin and the Dragons (TV Animated 1991 Kevin Kline)
Merlin of the Crystal Cave (BBC TV '91 Michael Darlow. George Winter, Thomas Lambert, Jody David, Roger Alborough, Robert Powell, Trevor Peacock, Sam Hails, Kim Thomson)
Merlin's Apprentice (2006 David Wu. Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, John Reardon, Meghan Ory, Tegan Moss, Christopher Jacot, Garwin Sanford, Duncan Fraser)
Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders ('96 Kenneth J. Berton. Ernest Borgnine, George Milan, Bunny Summers, John Terrence, Patricia Sansone, Mark Hurtado)
Merlin, the Magician (Silent 1899)
+ Merlin: the Magic Begins (Merlin: The Quest Begins TV,'98 David Winning. Jason Connery, Deborah Moore, Gareth Thomas, Graham McTavish, Paul Curran, Lara Daans, Corey Haim)
Merlin: The Return ('99 Paul Matthews. Rick Mayall, Adrian Paul, Tia Carrere, Patrick Bergin, Craig Sheffer, Julie Hartley, Grethe Fox)
The Mighty ('98, Sharon Stone)
+ The Mists of Avalon (TV 2001 Uli Edel. Angelica Houston, Julianna Margulies, Joan Allen, Samantha Mathis, Caroline Goodall, Edward Atterton, Michael Vartan, Michael Byrne, Hans Matheson, Mark Lewis Jones, Clive Russell)
Mr. Merlin (TV Series '81-82 John Astin, Bill Bixby. Barnard Hughes, Clark Brandon, Elaine Joyce, Jonathan Prince)
! Monty Python and the Holy Grail '75 Monty Python)
! Prince Valiant ('54 Henry Hathaway. Robert Wagner, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Debra Pageet, Sterling Hayden, Victor McLaglen, Donald Crisp, Brian Ahern) ALW
+ Prince Valiant ('97 Anthony Hickox. Stephen Moyer, Jodie Kidd, Katherine Heigl, Thoma Kretschmann, Edward Fox, Udo Kier, Warwick Davis, Ben Pullen, Zach Galligan, Marcus Schenckenberg, Joanna Lumley, Ron Perlman) ALW
Quest For Camelot (Animated '98 Frederik Du Chau. Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Andrea Corr, Bryan White, Gary Oldman, Don Rickles, Eric Idle, Jane Seymour, C�line Dion, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Perry, John Gielgud, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White, Gabriel Byrne)
Siege of the Saxons ('63 Nathan Juran. Jannette Scott, Ronald Lewis, Ronald Howard, John Laurie)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2002 David Lister. Robert Davi, Kelly LeBrock, Byron Taylor, Greg Melvill-Smith, Anne Power, Gideon Emery)
! Sword in the Stone ('62 Disney animated)
+ Sword of Lancelot (Lancelot and Guenevere,'63 Cornel Wilde. C. W., Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne, George Baker)
+ Sword of the Valiant (Gawaine and the Green Knight,'85 Stephen Weeks. Miles O'Keefe, Cyrielle Claire, Leigh Lawson, Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Peter Cushing, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies) ALW
% Teklab (TV, Greg Evigan, Michael York, William Shatner)
Tristan et Yseult (France '20 Maurice Mariaud. Tania Daleyme, Sylvio De Pedrelli, Andr�e Lionel, Henri Maillard)
Tristan et Yseult (France '72 Yvan Lagrange. Y.V, Claire Wauthion)
Tristan and Isolde ('73 Pierre Jourdan. Jon Vickers, Birgit Nilsson, Ruth Hesse, Walter Berry, Marke Bengt, Bengt Rundgren. Wagner opera)
+ Unidentified Flying Oddball (A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court '79 Russ Mayberry. Dennis Duggan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody, Kenneth Moore, Shelia White)
A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ('96 Ralph L. Thomas. Michael York, Theresa Russell, Nick Mancuso, Philippe Ross, Polly Shannon, Jack Langedijk, Paul Hopkins, Ian Falconer, David Shaeffer)

ROBIN HOOD
- ! The Adventures of Robin Hood ('38 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Alan Hale, Patric Knowles, Montagu Love)
- + Adventures of Robin Hood (Robin Hood '50's TV series. Richard Greene, Bernadette O'Farrell, Alexander Gauge, Donald Pleasance)
- % The Adventures of Robin Hood (Robin Hood - Animated Adaptation of the Howard Pyle Classic, Robin Hood Animated '85 Robert Colby, Helen Morse, Wallas Eaton, George Stephenson, Richard Meikle. Great music, poor animation)
- The Bandit of Sherwood Forest ('46 Henry Levin, George Sherman. George Sherman, Henry Levin. Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond, Edgar Buchanan)
- A Challenge for Robin Hood (Hammer '68 C. M. Pennington-Richards. Barrie Ingham, James Hayter, Leon Greene, Peter Blythe, Gay Hamilton, Alfie Bass)
- Keroppi: Robin Hood (Animated '94)
- The Last Unicorn (Animated,'82 Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass. Voices of Alan Akin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Lee, Keenan Wynn, Rene Auberjons. Robin and his men in a brief scene in the beginning)
- ! The Legend of Young Robin Hood (David Warbeck, Kathleen Byron, Dan Meaden, Ciaran Madden)
- The Magnificent Robin Hood (Il Magnifico Robin Hood, Las Nuevas aventuras de Robin de los Bosques Italy/Spain '70 Roberto Bianchi Montero. George Martin, Sheila Rossin, Frank Bra�a, Massimo Righi, Aldo Cecconi, Cris Huerta, Antonella Murgia, Benito Pacifico, Luciano Conti)
- Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (BBC TV Series '89-'94 David Bell. Kate Lonergan, Wayne Morris, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis, Mike Edmonds, Forbes Collins, Tony Robinson. Written by Tony Robinson (Baldrick from Black Adder))
- Men of Sherwood Forest ('54 Val Guest. Don Taylor, Reginald Beckwith, Eileen Moore, David King Wood)
- Mr Magoo in Sherwood Forest
- New Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series '94)
- Prince of Theives ('48 Howard Bretherton. Jon Hall, Patricia Morrison, Adele Jergens, Alan Mowbray)
- + Princess of Thieves
- Rich Little's Robin Hood ('82 Rich Little)
- ! Robin and Marian ('76 Richard Lester. Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Nicol Willamson, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris, Denholm Elliott, Ian Holm, Victoria Abril)
- Robin Hood (Silent '12 �tienne Arnaud, Herbert Blach�. Robert Frazer, Barbara Tennant, Alec B. Francis, M.E. Hannefy, George Larkin, Charles Hundt, John Troyano, Arthur Hollingsworth, Lamar Johnstone)
- Robin Hood (Robin Hood and Maid Marian Silent '13 Theodore Marston. William Russell, Gerda Holmes, Harry Benham, John Webb Dillon, Ernest Redding, Walter Gibbs)
- Robin Hood (Silent '22 Allan Dwan. Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam De Grasse, Enid Bennett, Paul Dickey, William Lowery, Alan Hale, Bud Geary, Lloyd Talman)
- Robin Hood ('33 Frank Moser. )
- Robin Hood ('35 Joy Batchelor.)
- ! Robin Hood ('91 John Irvin. Patrick Bergen, Uma Thurman, Owen Teale, Jeroen Krabbe, Jurgen Prochnow, David Morrissey, Carolyn Backhouse, Phelim McDermott, Edward Fox) AMZ ALW
- Robin Hood ('98 Mike A. Martinez, David Wood, Joe Adkins, Greg S. Campbell, Mark Isaacson, Brian Klapstein, George N. Thompson)
- + Robin Hood (Animated Disney '73 Wolfgang Reitherman. Brian Bedford, Peter Ustinov, Phil Harris, Terry-Thomas, Monica Evans, Roger Miller, Pat Buttram)
- Robin Hood (Part of Fairy Tales and Fables animated series)
- Robin Hood (Part of Enchanted Collection animated series)
- Robin Hood and the Pirates (Robin Hood e i pirati Italy '60 Giorgio Simonelli. Lex Barker, Jocelyn Lane, Rosanna Rory, Mario Scaccia, Walter Barnes, Edith Peters)
- Robin Hood, Jr. (Silent '23 Clarence Bricker. Frankie Lee, Peggy Cartwright, S.J. Bingham, Edward Cooper, Harry Lamont, Phil Dunham)
- Robin Hood, Jr. ('34 Ub Iwerks. Eleanor Stewart)
- Robin Hood Junior ('77 John Black, Matt McCarthy. Keith Chegwin, Nicholas Dunn, Keith Jayne, Mandy Tulloch, Anthony Bailey, Sean Barrett, Rachel Brennock, Rachel Brennock)
- + Robin Hood: Men in Tights ('93 Mel Brooks. Carey Elwes, Richard Lewis, Amy Yasbeck, Tracy Ullman, Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Dick Van Patten, Isaac Hayes, Patrick Sterwart)
- Robin Hood no daib�ken (Robin Hood's Big Adventure Japan TV series '90 Koichi Mashimo.)
- Robin Hood, O Trapalh�o da Floresta (Brazil '74 J.B. Tanko. M�rio Cardoso, Monique Lafond, Renato Arag�o, Ded� Santana)
- + Robin Hood, Prince of Theives ('91 Kevin Reynolds. Kevin Costner, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman, Bian Blessed, Nick Brimble, Michael McShane, Harold Innocent, Sean Connery)
- Robin Hood: the Invincible Archer (Robin Hood, el arquero invencible, Robin Hood, l'invincibile arciere Spain/Italy '70 Jos� Luis Merino. Antonio Mayans, Luis Barboo, Carlos Ballesteros, Maribel Mart�n, Terele P�vez, Juan Rib�, Franca Polesello, Paola Senatore, Dan van Husen)
- Robin Hood...The Legend
  - ! Robin Hood & The Sorcerer ('83 Michael Praed, Anthony Valentine, Nickolas Grace)
  - ! The Swords of Wayland ('83 Michael Praed, Rula Lenska, Nickolas Grace)
  - ! Herne's Son ('85 Jason Connery, Oliver Cotton, Nickolas Grace)
  - ! The Time of the Wolf ('85 Jason Connery, Richard O'Brien, Nickolas Grace)
- Rogues of Sherwood Forest ('50 Gordon Douglas. John Derek, Diana Lynn, George Macready, Alan Hale)
- The Scalawag Bunch (Long Live Robin Hood , L'Arciere di Sherwood, L'Arciere di fuoco, El Arquero de Sherwood, La Grande chevauch�e de Robin des bois '70 Giorgio Ferroni. Giuliano Gemma, Mark Damon, Silvia Dionisio, Mario Adorf, Daniele Dublino, Nello Pazzafini, Manuel Zarzo, Lars Bloch)
- The Son of Robin Hood ('59 George Sherman. David Hedison, June Laverick, David Farrar, George Coulouris, George Woodbridge, Humphrey Lestocq, Jack Lambert)
- The Story of Robin Hood (The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men '52 Ken Annakin. Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch, James Hayter, James Robertson Justice, Martita Hunt, Hubert Gregg, Anthony Eustrel, Patrick Barr)
- Strely Robin Guda (Стрелы Робин Гуда, Robin Hood's Arrows Soviet Union '76 Sergei Tarasov. Boris Khmelnitsky)
- Sword of Sherwood Forest (Hammer '60 Terence Fisher. Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Oliver Reed)
- + Tales of Robin Hood ('51 James Tinling. Robert Clarke, Mary Hatcher, Paul Cavanaugh, Wade Crosby)
- ! Time Bandits ('81 Monty Python allumni, Sean Connery, Shelly Duval, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan, David Warner, Kenny Baker, David Rappaport)
- Virgins of Sherwood Forest (2000 Cybil Richards. Brian Heidik. Adult)
- Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood ('69 John Hough. David Warbeck, Dan Meaden, Kathleen Byron, Roy Boyd)
- Young Robin Hood (Animated TV series '92 Thor Bishopric, Sonja Ball, Kathleen Fee, A.J. Henderson, Bronwen Mantel, Anik Matern, Michael O'Reilly, Terrence Scammell, Michael Rudder, Harry Standjofski)
- The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood ('84 Ray Austin. George Segal, Morgan Fairchild, Roddy McDowall, Janet Suzman, Tom Baker, Robin Nedwell, Neil Hallett, Robert Hardy)

IVANHOE
- Ballada o doblestnom rytsare Ajvengo (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго, Ivanhoe Soviet Union '83 Sergei Tarasov. Peteris Gaudins, Boris Khmelnitsky, Boris Khimichev)
- % Darkest Knight (Dark Knight, Fantasy Quest TV 2000 Mark Ezra, Terry Marcel. Ben Pullen, Charlotte Comer, Peter O'Farrell, Cameron Rhodes, Todd Rippon, Desmond Kelly, Michael Wilson) AMZ
- Ivanhoe (Rebecca the Jewess Silent '13 Leedham Bantock, Herbert Brenon. King Baggot, Leah Baird, Nancy Bevington, Herbert Brenon, Evelyn Hope, Walter Craven, Wallace Bosco, W. Thomas)
- Ivanhoe (Silent '13 Lauderdale Maitland, Ethel Bracewell, Hubert Carter)
- ! Ivanhoe ('52 Richard Thorpe. Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Emlyn Williams, George Sanders, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer, Francis de Wolff, Guy Rolfe, Harold Warrender) ALW
- Ivanhoe (TV series '58 Lance Comfort, Arthur Crabtree, more. Roger Moore, Robert Brown, John Pike, Andrew Keir, Brian Weske)
- Ivanhoe (TV '82 Douglas Camfield. James Mason, Anthony Andrews, Sam Neill, Michael Hordern, Olivia Hussey, Lysette Anthony, Julian Glover, John Rhys-Davies) ALW
- Ivanhoe (TV Miniseries '97 Stuart Orme. Steven Waddington, Susan Lynch, Victoria Smurfit, James Cosmo, Ralph Brown, Ciar�n Hinds, Nick Brimble, Trevor Cooper, Jimmy Chisholm, Chris Walker, Aden Gillett, David Nicholls, Ron Donachie, Rory Edwards, David Horovitch, Valentine Pelka, Si�n Phillips, Ronald Pickup, Christopher Lee)
- Ivanhoe ('99 John Haverson, Rita Shaver)
- Ivanhoe (Animated)
- Ivanhoe (Animated '99)
- Pimple's Ivanhoe (Silent '13 Fred Evans)
- Rivincita di Ivanhoe (The Revenge of Ivanhoe Italy '65 Tanio Boccia. Rik Van Nutter, Gilda Lousek, Andrea Aureli, Duilio Marzio, Furio Meniconi, Glauco Onorato)
- La Spada normanna (La Espada normanda, The Norman Swordsman, Le Retour d'Ivanhoe, Ivanhoe - svarte h�mnaren France / Italy / Spain '71 Roberto Mauri. Mark Damon, Luis D�vila, Aveline Frederica, Krista Nell, Manuel Zarzo, Luciano Pigozzi)
- Young Ivanhoe (TV '95 Ralph L. Thomas. Stacy Keach, Margot Kidder, Nick Mancuso, Kristen Holden-Reid, Rachel Blanchard, Matthew Daniels, James Bradford, Ian Falconer, Marek Vasut)

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