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With Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders, Laurence Harvey. While leading the Third Crusade, King Richard the Lionheart (George Sanders) battles treachery in his own camp as well as the Saracens and their charismatic leader Emir Hderim Sultan Saladin (Sir Rex Harrison).
King Richard and the Crusaders is a 1954 American historical drama based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman made by Warner Bros. The film stars Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders and Laurence Harvey, with Robert Douglas, Michael Pate and Paula Raymond.
Sir Walter Scott's classic novel The Talisman about King Richard the Lionheart's quest to wrest the Holy Grail from the Emperor Saladin comes to the screen i...
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) begins with a voiceover that sets out the narrative terrain with movie-style moral clarity. The year is 1191, the place is a "seemingly peaceful desert" where "two savage crusades have been fought by Christians against Moslems," and the eponymous hero is King Richard I of England, alias "Richard of the ...
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Sir Kenneth (Laurence Harvey) flirts with Lady Edith (Virginia Mayo) as Richard I and company face a sultan's (Rex Harrison) army and go for the Grail.
- History, Drama
Laurence Harvey portrays a fictional Scottish knight on crusade with Richard the Lionheart in this brightly coloured but laboured adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's "The Talisman". The history is all over the place and the casting - particularly Rex Harrison as Saladin, but George Sanders as King Richard is pretty lame too.
