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The Black Shield of Falworth

Play trailer Poster for The Black Shield of Falworth Released Sep 2, 1954 1h 39m Adventure Play Trailer Watchlist
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The son (Tony Curtis) of a disgraced knight courts a lady (Janet Leigh), thwarts a plot and restores his knighthood.
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TIME Staff TIME Magazine Everything is just as it ought to be in such a picture. Oct 3, 2018 Full Review Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine A preposterous but harmless swordopera in CinemaScope, rather enjoyable on a comic-strip level. Nov 6, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D Dated but somewhat fun. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/23/24 Full Review Audience Member It is simple by today's standards... no real special effects, no historical importance... but I loved that movie when I saw it for $.25 in our school gym in 1960 and I loved it years later when I rented a VCR cassette and made my kids watch it with me. It is simple... old-fashioned... maybe even trite by today's standards. Technicolor pageantry... knights is armor, damsels in distress... escapist adventure that took me out of my brown, repressive, small town life. It is still worth watching - if for no other reason to see Tony Curtis at the height of his make-every-woman-swoon stardom and Janet Leigh in her youthful radiance - and a tremendous supporting cast. This isn't a great movie - but it is great entertainment! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member a good movie nice costumes,horses and riders of horses in scenes of knights fighting Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member My favorite Tony Curtis film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 were never like this! But then I don't think Shakespeare had much of a hand in this screenplay. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Mediocre medieval drama, but of interest to those enjoying the on (and off) screen relationship of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. In one late scene you can see the modern carpentry on the underside of a bench that flips over when the bad guy lands on it. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The son (Tony Curtis) of a disgraced knight courts a lady (Janet Leigh), thwarts a plot and restores his knighthood.
Director
Rudolph Maté
Producer
Robert Arthur, Melville Tucker
Production Co
Universal/Universal Int
Genre
Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 2, 1954, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 11, 2015
Runtime
1h 39m
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