Prince Valiant (1997)

Directed by

Anthony Hickox

Genre

fantasy film, adventure film, swashbuckler film, period drama film, sword-and-sandal film, romance film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 79 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young prince named Valiant fights Vikings and a scheming sorceress to protect his kingdom. The story is a loose adaptation of a classic comic strip.

swashbucklinglightheartedadventurousromanticwhimsicalold-fashionedepisodic

What happens

Prince Valiant is a 1997 independent sword and sorcery film directed by Anthony Hickox, written by Michael Frost Beckner, and starring Stephen Moyer, Katherine Heigl, Thomas Kretschmann, Joanna Lumley, Ron Perlman, and Edward Fox. It is a loose adaptation of the long-running Prince Valiant comic strip of Hal Foster, some panels of which were used in the film. In it, Valiant must battle the Vikings and a scheming sorceress to save the kingdom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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