Ivanhoe (1952 film)

Ivanhoe is a 1952 American cinema film in color, directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman for MGM. The cast features Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Finlay Currie, and Felix Aylmer. The screenplay is by neas MacKenzie, Marguerite Roberts and Noel Langley, based on the historical novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.

Richard the Lionheart Norman Wooland, King of England, vanishes while returning from the Crusades. One of his knights, the Saxon Wilfred of Ivanhoe Robert Taylor, searches tirelessly for him, finally finding him being held for ransom by Leopold of Austria for the enormous sum of 150,000 marks of silver. Richards treacherous brother, Prince John Guy Rolfe, knows about it, but enjoys ruling in his absence.Ivanhoe returns to England, to the house of his estranged father, Cedric Finlay Currie, to be reunited with his love and Cedrics ward, the Lady Rowena Joan Fontaine, and to beg his fathers help in raising the ransom. Cedric refuses to help a Norman king and orders his son to leave. Wamba Emlyn Williams, Cedrics court jester, begs to go with Ivanhoe and is made his squire. ........

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