Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Universal)
Another story of persecuted Christians from DeMille, this time set in Palestine where Muslims have taken over Jerusalem. The strongest kings of Europe unite on a crusade to recapture the city, lead by Richard from England. On the coast of France, he is coerced into marrying a young maiden in exchange for food for the starving army, greatly upsetting a French princess to which he was promised. However, after he takes one look at his new bride Loretta Young he decides to take her along to Palestine. Make no mistake, the focus of the plot is not the crusades, but the love story between Young and Henry Wilcoxon. There is one good battle scene at the wall of Acre, but otherwise it's all mushy nonsense, with another unconvincing religious conversion for the ending, similar to DeMille's The Sign of the Cross just 3 years earlier.
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