Rating: - Those flippin' american accents can drive you nuts
Good family movie with good hard sword fights for the boys, beautful princesses for the girls, solid story for mum and dad and splendid backdrops. Go on, go on, oh go on buy it, it's what you dreamed of being when you played knights and castles as a kid.
Rating: - Rousing Tony Curtis Movie
The Black Shield of Falworth gets a bad rap quite a bit - because of Curtis' accent, the script, the acting, etc...
But it's really a very entertaining, rousing film that takes the standard "farm boy who's really nobility" theme and achieves great things, notably an entertaining film with a script that is witty, acting that is not as bad as people think, and great action sequences that make the movie. The clanking sound effects of medieval battle are often covered/obscured with music or overdone, but these sound effects work very well to heighten the tension.
This film should be in wide release on DVD. My hope is that since these types of films have made somewhat of a comeback thanks to Gladiator and Braveheart that the Black Shield of Falworth will get the attention that it is due.
Rating: - with a little forgiveness this is GREAT!
Yes the acting is horrible, and yes the set pieces are old school...but this movie strikes at the heart a simplistic joy and is enjoyable to a full extent if you can allow it to just swewep you off your feet and enjoy the unbelievable ride of a heroic, honorable peasant boy who fulfills his birthrite as royality. I saw this for the first time a very long time ago as a boy on WGN on a Sunday afternoon, and I recorded it, and I have watched this movie at least 100 times since then and the tape is now dead. PLEASE someone bring this movie to DVD! Thank you and take care everyone!
Rating: - Five, because you CAN'T Get it! 3 1/2 as a movie, But. . . .
Where IS this movie on DVD? Come to think of it, where is it on VHS in popular release? WHY isn't IT AVAILABLE?
Well, as to the movie, it's an awkward adaptaion of Howard Pyle's, "MEN IN IRON." Want to have some fun? Try and find the book It's really not very good. The interiors are so studio set-pieces, they are laughable. The acting is, at best, acceptable. Curtis is very young, very handsome, and as Miles Falworth (in the immortal words of Anna Russell), "very stupid." He takes on the Earl, the Master of Arms, the Master of Squires, and according to the book, he's not even 18 yet! What a Dunce! But the technicolor, the pairing of Curtis, and his new wife, Janet Leigh (this was the FIRST movie they ever ... Read More
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- Those flippin' american accents can drive you nuts
- with a little forgiveness this is GREAT!
