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25 October 1967 (USA)
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The Most Beautiful Love Story Ever! more
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The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere is played out amid the pagentry of Camelot...
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Won 3 Oscars.
Another 4 wins
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6 nominations
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(8 articles)
Uncanny Birthday Suits
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Birthday Suits and a Ballsy Actress
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(From FilmExperience. 23 November 2009, 7:30 AM, PST)
Birthday Suits and a Ballsy Actress
(From FilmExperience. 18 November 2009, 8:47 AM, PST)
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Mediocre Stage to Screen Adaptation
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Richard Harris | ... | King Arthur |
 | Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Guenevere |
 | Franco Nero | ... | Lancelot Du Lac |
| David Hemmings | ... | Mordred |
| Lionel Jeffries | ... | King Pellinore |
| Laurence Naismith | ... | Merlyn |
| Pierre Olaf | ... | Dap |
| Estelle Winwood | ... | Lady Clarinda |
| Gary Marshal | ... | Sir Lionel |
| Anthony Rogers | ... | Sir Dinadan |
| Peter Bromilow | ... | Sir Sagramore |
| Sue Casey | ... | Lady Sybil |
| Gary Marsh | ... | Tom of Warwick |
| Nicolas Beauvy | ... | King Arthur as a Boy |
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179 min | Canada:175 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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4-Track Stereo (35 mm prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
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Simon Oates, Michael Latimer, Robert Morris and Nicholas Pennell were interviewed for various knights.
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Continuity: In the scene when Arthur is explaining to Pellinore about the court system, the people in the background change and disappear between shots.
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A Knight: The rules of battle are not for Lancelot Du Lac, Your Majesty! Let us attack now while they sleep!
King Arthur: [firmly] We will attack when I give the command - at dawn.
[the knight leaves, and Arthur begins to talk to himself]
King Arthur: Oh, Merlyn, Merlyn, why is Ginny in that castle, behind walls I cannot enter? How did I blunder into this agonizing absurdity? Where did I stumble? How did I go wrong? Should I not have loved her?
[sighs]
King Arthur: Then I should not have been born! Oh, Merlyn, I haven't got much time. Within an inch of sunlight, the arrows begin to fly. If I am to die in battle, please, please do not let me die bewildered!
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A Knight: The rules of battle are not for Lancelot Du Lac, Your Majesty! Let us attack now while they sleep!
King Arthur: [firmly] We will attack when I give the command - at dawn.
[the knight leaves, and Arthur begins to talk to himself]
King Arthur: Oh, Merlyn, Merlyn, why is Ginny in that castle, behind walls I cannot enter? How did I blunder into this agonizing absurdity? Where did I stumble? How did I go wrong? Should I not have loved her?
[sighs]
King Arthur: Then I should not have been born! Oh, Merlyn, I haven't got much time. Within an inch of sunlight, the arrows begin to fly. If I am to die in battle, please, please do not let me die bewildered!
[...]
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Referenced in Quest for Camelot (1998)
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Finale: Camelot
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It's hilarious that one reviewer here on IMDb singles out Franco Nero as the best singer out of the three leads. He obviously wasn't aware that Franco Nero didn't do his own singing ad was in fact dubbed by Gene Merlino! Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave did do their own singing.
Overall, Camelot has a melodious score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and some first rate production values but it drags in spots. It's also very much a product of the 1960s as "The Lusty Month of May" is turned into some sort of pseudo hippie medieval love-in.
As for the performances Harris is a little too fey for my tastes as King Arhur. Vanessa Redgrave, although a good actress lacks the beautiful vocal renderings Julie Andrews gave the part and Franco Nero is hopelessly wooden as Lancelot. David Hemmings is a delightfully devious Mordred and almost steals the film from the rest of the cast.
Camelot is ultimately a very good example of the over-produced, over-stuffed musicals the studios were turning out during this period.