Word: valiants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite all this scenic Smorgasbord there are only two ways in which you can distinguish Prince Valiant from more familar sagebrush sages. First of all, the savages are Nordies (of sorts) and sport horns in lieu of feathers. In fact, there are horns everywhere. On helmets, as drinking cups and bugles--horns are on everything except the script, which wears a beard. The second distinguishing detail is the frank presentation of propaganda for the Bolivian tin interests. What isn't made of horn in the picture is sure to be tin, including swords, shields, prison bars and armor...
Overlooking Prince Valiant's debt to Hopalong Cassidy, and the shoddy manfuacture of its props--even stone keeps crumble obligingly--the picture is not without a minimum of merit. It has the lovely, if generally untalented, Janet Leigh. Although much too little in view, she does brighten up Camelot considerably. There is also a fine fire at the end that features the burning alive of a few underpaid extras, plus a bit of fancy broadsword play...
...Prince Valiant (20th Century-Fox). In this movie version of Harold Foster's comic strip, Producer Robert L. Jacks and Director Henry Hathaway have not only matched the museum-copied look of the well-known Sunday viking and his cohorts; they have caught the panel's inner mood of stilted boyhood reverie as well. The outer semblance was attained partly by chance-the CinemaScope screen coincides roughly with the dimensions Foster favors for his cautiously grand panoramas...
...Prince Valiant, in short, is all a small boy could ask for. His parents might as well relax and enjoy...
...Therefore be it resolved that the Stoughton Post of the V.F.W. condemn the abusive and insulting treatment of General Zwicker by Senator McCarthy and [express] its gratitude to [Zwicker] for the valiant service he has rendered on the battlefield against the enemies of our democracy...