The War Lord (1965)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Franklin J. Schaffner

Writers:

John Collier (writer)
Millard Kaufman (writer)

Release Date:

17 November 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | History

Plot:

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed...

Plot Keywords:

Castle | Virgin | Norman | Medieval | 10th Century

Cast

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

Runtime:

France:122 min | USA:123 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

USA:Approved | Finland:K-16 | West Germany:16 (nf)

Filming Locations:

Colusa County, California, USA

Company:

Court Productions

Trivia:

Michael Conrad's dialog was dubbed by (probably) Paul Frees.

Quotes:

Priest: Well, now, fertility. Some say it's pagan. But who's not pagan in some matters?
Draco: True, true! I love the speech of scholars.
Priest: These young folks here think of nothing but frolic. "Desist!" I tell them, but they will go a-wantoning. So, lest the Devil take them, I preach them a text from holy writ. "Increase and multiply," I say. "Replenish the earth." And oh! how they obey me.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Bowling for Columbine (2002)

The realism of the movie.

Everything in this movie is so real. The attitudes of each other the costumes the setting and on and on. Notice the actors never changed clothes. The tower was spartan just as it would have been. There has not been a movie that packs this level of realism.