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IL CAVALIERE DEL MISTERO

(The Black Knight)

1954, regia di Tay Garnett

Scheda: Nazione: USA - Produzione: Warwick Pictures - Distribuzione: Ceiad, Columbia Pictures - Soggetto: Alec Coppel - Sceneggiatura: Alec Coppel, Bryan Forbes, Dennis O'Keefe - Fotografia: John Wilcox - Montaggio: Gordon Pilkington - Scenografia: Alex Vetchinsky - Musiche: John Addison - Effetti speciali: Industrial Light & Magic - Formato: Panoramica Technicolor - Durata: 85'.

Cast: Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, Peter Cushing, Harry Andrews, André Morell, Laurence Naismith, Patrick Troughton, Anthony Bushell, Ronald Adam, John Laurie, Basil Appleby, Olwen Brookes, Jean Lodge, Bill Brandon, Pauline Jameson, Tommy Moore, John Kelly, Elton Hayes.

Trama e commenti: it-cinema.com - mymovies.it: «Il "cavaliere" Ladd non è più quello della valle solitaria, ma il campione in armatura e spada che offre il suo braccio a una bella castellana. Nonostante il mutamento di scenario, Ladd è il solito eroe senza macchia dei film di Stevens».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - entertainment.msn.com - tvguide.com - notrecinema.com - lib.rochester.edu: «John, a poor blacksmith, learns that the Viking attacks on England are really the handiwork of Sir Palamides, a knight of the Round Table, and his ally, King Mark, Both intend to overthrow Arthur and supplant Christianity in England with paganism. John becomes a knight and saves the kingdom from Palamides and Mark, while also winning the hand of his lady love, the fair Linet. When it was originally released, most critics dismissed this film as unintentionally funny. More recently, however, Alan Lupack has advanced an alternate reading of the film arguing convincingly that The Black Knight needs to be read against the politics of the 1950s. Against such a backdrop, the film can be "seen as an allegory for the triumph of American values over a Communist threat"».

Conosciuto anche con i titoli: El caballero negro; Kuningas Arthurin ritarit; Unter schwarzem Visier; Le serment du chevalier noir.

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