Knights of the Round Table (1953)

Directors

Richard Thorpe

Cast

Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Anne Crawford, Stanley Baker, Felix Aylmer

The story

With Britain in anarchy, warring overlords Arthur Pendragon and his half-sister Morgan LeFay meet as arranged by the sorcerer Merlin to discuss how to end the bloodshed. Merlin leads them to Excalibur, a sword embedded in an anvil and stone and says that according to legend, whoever can remove the sword shall be King of England. Morgan's lover Modred attempts to draw the sword from the anvil and stone and fails, while Arthur removes the sword easily.

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