Warner Bros.
Directed by David Butler
My rating: 1.5 star out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, Warner)
(Turner Classic Movies)
Traitors attempt to assassinate King Richard in the deserts of Africa. Thanks to his loyal bodyguard they fail. Meanwhile an Arab king, their enemy, sneaks into their ranks. The three of them spend most of the movie fighting over Virginia Mayo, the English queen, who appears completely out of place and baffled that she was cast in this movie. There are endless scenes of elaborately costumed people talking on studio-bound sets. Only the exteriors and the far too brief action scenes liven it up, but even those are marred by close-ups done with back projection on obviously fake horses. George Sanders is King Richard, who delivers his lines with high school aplomb, and Rex Harrison is the Arab king, in heavy mascara and a wig. Based on a Sir Walter Scott novel.
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