Knights of the Round Table

Japanese: 《円卓の騎士》 - えんたくのきし
Knights of the Round Table


[Chivalry Films and Technicolor]
The rise of the chivalric film is closely linked to the spread of Technicolor (color film) and CinemaScope. It began with MGM's trilogy directed by R. Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor, which consisted of The Black Knight (1952), based on Walter Scott's chivalric novel Ivanhoe, The Knights of the Round Table (1953), based on the Arthurian legend, and The Swordsman (1956), also based on Scott's novel Ivanhoe, and written by Quentin Durward. The Black Knight, which was shot on location in England and France and was the first to project a real medieval castle on the screen in Technicolor, received a particularly strong response. In addition, the success of MGM's first CinemaScope film, The Knights of the Round Table, served as a stimulus for other companies to compete with MGM in 1954 by producing a series of medieval chivalry films shot on location in England and using CinemaScope. Columbia produced Alan Ladd's Castle, which was not CinemaScope, Fox's Fire and Sword, starring Robert Wagner, Universal's The Black Shield of Falworth, starring Tony Curtis as its first CinemaScope film, and Warner Brothers' Richard the Lionheart, starring Rex Harrison, sparking an unprecedented boom in chivalry films.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[騎士道映画とテクニカラー]
 騎士道映画の隆盛はテクニカラー(カラー映画)とシネマスコープの普及に深く結びついている。その口火を切ったのがMGMのR.ソープ監督,ロバート・テーラー主演の三部作で,ウォルター・スコットの騎士道小説《アイバンホー》を原作にした《黒騎士》(1952),アーサー王伝説に基づく《円卓の騎士》(1953),これもスコット原作の《クェンティン・ダーワード》による《古城の剣豪》(1956)であった。とくにイギリスとフランスにロケーションを敢行し,初めてテクニカラーによって本物の中世の城をスクリーンに映し出した《黒騎士》の反響は大きく,それに加えてMGM初のシネマスコープ作品《円卓の騎士》の成功が刺激剤となって,1954年には,MGMに対抗して各社が競い合ってイギリス・ロケ,シネマスコープによる中世騎士道ものを次々に製作,コロムビアでは,シネマスコープではないがアラン・ラッド主演《男の城》,フォックスではロバート・ワーグナー主演《炎と剣》,ユニバーサルでは同社の第1回シネマスコープ作品としてトニー・カーチス主演《フォルウォスの黒楯》,ワーナー・ブラザースではレックス・ハリソン主演《獅子王リチャード》といった作品群が作られ,未曾有(みぞう)の騎士道映画ブームを巻き起こした。…

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