Prince Valiant (1954)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.1/10   

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Escritores:

Hal Foster (comic strip)
Dudley Nichols (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

5 abril 1954 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Aventura | Romance

Plot:

A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.

Plot Keywords:

Knight | Throne | Viking | King Arthur | Camelot

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Fifties nostalgia

Reparto

James Mason	...	Sir Brack
Janet Leigh	...	Princess Aleta
Robert Wagner	...	Prince Valiant
Debra Paget	...	Ilene
Sterling Hayden	...	Sir Gawain
Victor McLaglen	...	Boltar
Donald Crisp	...	King Aguar
Brian Aherne	...	King Arthur
Barry Jones	...	King Luke
Mary Philips	...	Queen
Howard Wendell	...	Morgan Todd
Tom Conway	...	Sir Kay

También conocida como:

El príncipe Valiente (Venezuela) [es]
El príncipe valiente (Spain) [es]

Duración:

100 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.55 : 1

Sonido:

4-Track Stereo (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

UK:U | West Germany:12 (f) | Finland:K-12 | USA:Approved (PCA #16695, General Audience) | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England, UK

Compañía:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

The average shot length of this film is about 7 seconds. This is fast for an early CinemaScope film, and is low given the 8 - 11 second average of most Hollywood films made between 1930 and 1960.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: As Valiant leaves his castle to meet Boltar at the beginning of the movie, he jumps from several heights to the ground. As Valiant jumps off of a small hill next to the castle, you can clearly see mats falling down from the hill after he jumps.

Citas:

Sir Gawain: A man does not risk banishment or death in borrowed armor unless the stakes are high.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "American Masters: None Without Sin" (2003)

Fifties nostalgia

While not nearly as good as Hal Foster's comic strip, this film is not nearly as bad as some reviewers would have you believe. James Mason makes a fine villain, and the action scenes are well directed by Hathaway. The biggest problem is that it is, after all, a fifties film, with all the good and bad points of the fifties. I am a big fan of the fifties, because it is the decade in which I started watching movies, but I am also aware that relatively low budgets and heavy handed censorship made even the best fifties films somewhat dubious -- e.g. A Streetcar Named Desire without any hint of homosexuality. Comparing Prince Valiant to most modern knights in armor films, I find it more fun than, say, Black Knight or Timeline.