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The Black Knight (1954)

The Black Knight poster
Directed by
Tay Garnett
Genre
adventure film, medieval film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A knight in armor works to stop two plotters from taking over King Arthur's throne. The hero takes on villains in battles and chases across medieval England.

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What happens

The Black Knight is a 1954 British-American Technicolor medieval adventure film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Alan Ladd as the title character and Peter Cushing and Patrick Troughton as two conspirators attempting to overthrow King Arthur. It is the last of Ladd's trilogy with Warwick Films, the others being The Red Beret and Hell Below Zero based on Hammond Innes' book The White South. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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