Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

drednm IVANHOE is a film I hadn't watched in many decades. It was surprisingly good. Robert Taylor stars as Walter Scott's hero, albeit in a much-revised story, in the days of Richard the Lionheart and his snarky brother John. While Taylor is 20 years older than Scott's hero, he's fine as within the context of the film. He's a rather haggard knight returned from the crusades and from finding where Richard is being held captive. John, issuing the fake news of the day, justifies his reign by saying Richard is dead. Anyway, England is in the midst of a Saxon vs. Norman bit of unrest, with the Saxons being subjugated by the Normans. Awaiting Ivanhoe all these years is the faithful Rowena (a stunning (Joan Fontaine) who is the ward of his father (Finlay Currie). About the time of Ivanhoe's return, we all see the return of the evil Normans, Bois-Guilbert and De Bracy (George Sanders and Robert Douglas). They have a mash up in Currie's house, but no one recognizes the much-changed Ivanhoe. Into this plot comes the displaced Jew Isaac (Felix Aylmer) and his daughter Rebecca (a stunning Elizabeth Taylor, though too young for the role). While Isaac may be a money lender (a term of much derision in medieval times), it's not a term used in the film. Both women are in love with Ivanhoe, but Bois-Guillbert lusts after Rebecca. The plot works toward the ultimate jousting match between Ivanhoe and Bois-Guilbert and of course the return of Richard. The film, directed by Richard Thorpe, moves along nicely and was nominated for a best film Oscar. Others in the cast are Emlyn Williams as the fool-turned squire, Guy Rolfe as the oily John, Norman Wooland as Richard, May Hallatt as Elgitha, Harold Warrender as Robin of Locksley, and Sebastian Cabot as his cohort (not named Friar Tuck).One of the big negatives is the sets. Thirty years after the meticulous and magnificent Marion Davies film WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER, this MGM Technicolor opus looks skimpy by comparison. While the castle exteriors are OK, the interiors are not. And the jousting field is embarrassingly cheesy. The film also dissolves into an ambiguous romantic love story, while Scott's story embraced the concept of "courtly love." In the end, George Sanders and Emlyn Williams take the honors.

Kirpianuscus maybe, not the best adaptation. or not the most impressive film for a generation far by the universe of Walter Scott. but one of films who could be inspired choice for the viewer looking the art and flavor and sensitivity of old times. and, maybe, this is the basic virtue of it. to be a trip. in the universe of good novel and to remind the glamour of stars from a lost time. so, Ivanhoe.

Red-125 Ivanhoe, directed by Richard Thorpe, is a rousing movie that doesn't faithfully follow the plot of Walter Scott's novel. Still, it works at its own level as a great story about a young Saxon knight who has pledged loyalty to King Richard. In the book, and the film, Ivanhoe's father has disowned him because Ivanhoe has betrayed his Saxon roots. Scott's hero is as much Richard the Lion-Hearted as it is Ivanhoe. The movie is all Ivanhoe (played by Robert Taylor.). Both book and novel are really about the fact that two women love Ivanhoe--a Saxon woman, Rowena, played by Joan Fontaine, and a Jewish woman, Rebecca, played by Elizabeth Taylor.The casting is where the movie gets into trouble. Scott's Ivanhoe is a young man, and both Rowena and Rebecca are young women. However, the studios wanted marquee names, and that's what they got. Youth is what they didn't get. When the film was made, Robert Taylor was 41 and Joan Fontaine was 35. Not exactly over the hill, but not the youthful lovers Scott (or we) envisioned.Taylor, on the other hand, was only 20. After all the scandals and the loss of her youthful beauty, it's easy for us to forget what she looked like at age 20. Just to remind everyone, she was impossibly, achingly beautiful. When she's on the screen, we don't see anyone else.This is a movie to see because it has a wonderful, rousing (invented) fight scene at the end, and because Taylor has to be seen to be believed. Don't expect a subtle, intellectual movie, and you won't be disappointed.

wes-connors This is a stiffly performed, though good-looking adaptation of Walter Scott's popular Medieval novel. Handsome noble Robert Taylor (as Ivanhoe) gets to play with the emotions of two beautiful women, Jewish Elizabeth Taylor (as Rebecca) and Anglo Joan Fontaine (as Rowena). The performances get better as you go down the cast list. The score (Miklos Rozsa), cinematography (Freddie A. Young), and film (Pandro S. Berman) were nominated at "Academy Awards" time, with "Film Daily" and the "Director's Guild" adding honorable mentions for Richard Thorpe. His swashbuckling and chase scenes are certainly entertaining.****** Ivanhoe (7/31/52) Richard Thorpe ~ Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders