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17 November 1965 (USA)
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A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed...
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This is the role Charlton Heston was born to play.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Charlton Heston | ... | Chrysagon |
 | Richard Boone | ... | Bors |
 | Rosemary Forsyth | ... | Bronwyn |
| Maurice Evans | ... | Priest |
| Guy Stockwell | ... | Draco |
| Niall MacGinnis | ... | Odins |
| James Farentino | ... | Marc |
 | Henry Wilcoxon | ... | Frisian Prince |
| Sammy Ross | ... | Volc |
 | Woodrow Parfrey | ... | Piet |
| John Alderson | ... | Holbracht |
 | Allen Jaffe | ... | Tybald |
| Michael Conrad | ... | Rainault |
| Dal Jenkins | ... | Dirck |
| Johnny Jensen | ... | Boy Prince |
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France:122 min | USA:123 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Referenced in La bande du Drugstore (2002)
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If you're under 20 years of age this flick is going to look a little strange to you. There are no super-women wielding swords in battle, very little profanity, and the only sex is in PG form. Made in 1965, The Warlord is an accusing yet romantic look at medieval Europe. It's no Disney movie, but you could still take the whole family to see it.
The cast is first rate. Forget El Cid. This is the role Charlton Heston was born to play. You can pretty much say that about all the great actors in this story, most of whom are gone now. Richard Boone, Guy Stockwell, Maurice Evans, Michael Conrad,...but thank heaven we have them all assembled here in this exciting yarn about the middle ages. There's plenty of action, romance, and even a little comic relief. Men will enjoy the kick-butt sword fights, (Heston kicks one guy in the groin actually,--crude but effective). Ladies should enjoy the romance if they can remember that this is happening in the year 1060, long before the women's movement. The hero Chrysagon fights two empires for the love of one woman, says the promo. Even in 1965 that was enough for most women. The peasant girl Bronwyn, played by Rosemary Forsyth, has scores of men killing each other over her, although quite unintentionally.
Other good ingredients: a rousing and romantic musical score, and some well-done outdoor photography of Chrysagon's tower fortress and the battle scenes.
All in all, this is a great movie to watch on some Saturday afternoon. It will take you away from your problems for a while to a time and place long ago. And since medieval Europe really stank, it will make today's world look pretty good to you again.