Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newest minstrel of Arthurian romance is bearded, falconry-loving T. H. White, onetime English schoolmaster. The Sword in the Stone (1938), a tale of young Arthur's education in the hands of the wizard Merlyn, was so brightly fanciful that Walt Disney purchased it to succeed Snow White, Pinocchio, etc. The Witch in the Wood (1939) was a more slapdash account of Arthur's early kingship. This week appears the best of the series: The Ill-Made Knight, a whimsical chronicle of Arthur's further attempts to found civilization by channeling Might, via the Round Table, into...
Through a delightful realm of fantasy, burlesque, satire, medieval curiosa and gentle moralizing wander countless strange folk, such as the Cockney knight, Sir Meliagrance ("Yes, Ma'am, in 'arf a minute"). Typical episode: Lancelot stuck his sword in the ground, and went over to examine the wound. . . . "You've cut open my liver" said the man accusingly...
Hollywood has done it many times before; and in all probability it will do it many times again. But the fascination of Tudor England seems to hold American moviegoers entranced and they come to see tales of the Virgin Queen screened and re-screened. Perhaps it's the sword-play, perhaps it's the capes, perhaps its Errol Flynn's tawny beard that gets...
There was a sword, tempered and straight...
...lusty caper in the Great Southwest during the '70s. One is a down-at-the-heel ex-West Pointer (Fred MacMurray), one a sharpshooting, mustachioed Mexicano (Gilbert Roland), one a leather-faced old pug (Albert Dekker). Together they perform the most prodigious cinema escapades since the wall-scaling, sword-swishing days of Douglas Fairbanks-escaping from a firing squad, terrorizing a small frontier village in Texas, erasing a horde of badmen who murdered the grandfather of a hardy little moppet (Betty Brewer) whom they chivalrously adopt...