
Adventures of King Richard when he travels with Queen Berangaria, the knights and ladies of his court, and his army of crusaders to Palestine to fight Sultan Saladin and the Saracen hordes for possession of the Holy Land..


The year 1923 stands as a peculiar monolith in the history of the moving image, a time when the grammar of cinema was being written in real-time by pioneers who viewed the screen as both a canvas for high art and a pulpit for populist storytelling. Among the artifacts of this era, Richard the Lion-Hearted emerges not...

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" The year 1923 stands as a peculiar monolith in the history of the moving image, a time when the grammar of cinema was being written in real-time by pioneers who viewed the screen as both a canvas for high art and a pulpit for populist storytelling. Among the artifacts of this era, Richard the Lion-Hearted emerges not simply as a historical drama, but as a testament to the sheer audacity of the silent epic. Directed with a keen eye for pageantry by Chester Withey, this adaptation of Walter Scot..."
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