Synopsis
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
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Cast
- Robert TaylorWilfred of Ivanhoe
- Elizabeth TaylorRebecca
- Joan FontaineRowena
- George SandersDe Bois-Guilbert
- Emlyn WilliamsWamba
- Robert DouglasSir Hugh De Bracy
- Finlay CurrieCedric
- Felix AylmerIsaac
- Francis de WolffFront De Boeuf
- Norman WoolandKing Richard
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
Production of this picture in England endowed it with a rich, distinctive air. It is a grand picture, told in what Sir Walter himself called his "big bow-wow style." - 80
Time Out
The dialogue and script are fatuously Americanised from Scott's original, but these chivalric Hollywood sagas still have a strange poetic quality about them, perhaps partly because of the way they unscrupulously and inaccurately ransacked literature and history for ideas and images. - 80
Variety
Ivanhoe is a great romantic adventure, mounted extravagantly, crammed with action, and emerges as a spectacular feast. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Luxe MGM historical ransacking, locationed to the nines, beautiful to look upon, but with energy lapses in the soggy script of Sir Walter Scott's epic classic. - 70
The New Yorker
No one could say this wasn't a rousing movie. It's also romantic, big, commercial, and slick, in the M-G-M grand manner. - 70
The Observer (UK)
Best of a series of lavishly mounted MGM historical yarns made in England in the early 1950s with American stars and British supporting casts. [03 Jun 2012, p.46]
