First saw it 60 years ago on Ben Hunter's Movie Matinee and I remember liking it, especially Orson Welles' good/bad warlord (I was twelve at the time and just starting to appreciate ambiguity). Now, at seventy two, I'm afraid to say I find it way too slow and long for a good action/adventure film, especially one directed by the usually fine practitioner of the genre, Henry Hathaway, and Welles' performance now strikes me as too mannered and modern, like he's Charley Kane in a 13th century Mongol soldier's body. Give it a C plus.
Review of The Black Rose
