New "Ivanhoe" DVD

[silverwhistle]

Originally Posted by faceoff and some woman addressing at least our George Sanders "War, war, war, that is all you ever talk about Dickie Plantagenet!"

That is Virginia Mayo, in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) - a loose adaptation of The Talisman. I got the Warner's German release of it, as Der Talisman: not remastered, but OK. Laurence Harvey plays Sir Kenneth, the usual insipid Walter Scott hero, and Rex Harrison is a browned-up, singing Saladin. It's... strange.

[silverwhistle]

Originally Posted by Hackett "IVANHOE" was Roger Moore and William Russell was in "THE ADVENTURES OF SIR LANCELOT". Russells series is out on DVD. But Mr.Moore will not even acknowledge "IVANHOE" so I dout we will ever see it on DVD. Which is a shame in my view.

The Ivanhoe series I recall as a kid was the Eric Flynn one, 1970. I've got the later Anthony Andrews and Steven Waddington/Ciaran Hines versions.

[faceoff]

Originally Posted by silverwhistle That is Virginia Mayo, in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) - a loose adaptation of The Talisman. I got the Warner's German release of it, as Der Talisman: not remastered, but OK. Laurence Harvey plays Sir Kenneth, the usual insipid Walter Scott hero, and Rex Harrison is a browned-up, singing Saladin. It's... strange.

silverwhistle - a lot of them were - strange.

Hollywood history with John Wayne playing a barbarian of some sort, Orson Welles ditto. I used to view them with disbelief. Why the actors in the background weren't rolling on the ground helpless with laughter is a wonder of this earth in my view.

[silverwhistle]

Originally Posted by faceoff Hollywood history with John Wayne playing a barbarian of some sort, Orson Welles ditto. I used to view them with disbelief. Why the actors in the background weren't rolling on the ground helpless with laughter is a wonder of this earth in my view.

You're thinking of The Conqueror, in which John Wayne played Genghis Khan, and Welles in Macbeth. The Conqueror is famous for giving most of the cast and crew cancer, as they filmed it just downwind of a nuclear test-site.

I find King Richard & the Crusaders (and all Talisman adaptations) especially disconcerting because a) it's one of my specialist time-periods, and b) the novel and all film/TV versions stick the boot into one of my long-term historical pin-up boys, Conrad of Montferrat.

[philryan]

Hi there. My name is Phil Ryan son of Paddy Ryan the stuntman in Ivanhoe. You can email me on phil@stormproductions.biz for more information. My father was a bit of a character! Not to mention a person with secrets!

[batman]

Originally Posted by Hackett "IVANHOE" was Roger Moore and William Russell was in "THE ADVENTURES OF SIR LANCELOT". Russells series is out on DVD. But Mr.Moore will not even acknowledge "IVANHOE" so I dout we will ever see it on DVD. Which is a shame in my view.

Has Roger Moore ever given a reason for disliking 'Ivanhoe' so much ... it's not 'Robin Hood' (Richard Greene version) but it's not that bad.

[smiffy]

Originally Posted by philryan Hi there. My name is Phil Ryan son of Paddy Ryan the stuntman in Ivanhoe. You can email me on phil@stormproductions.biz for more information. My father was a bit of a character! Not to mention a person with secrets!

: Pray tell phil me lad , we have no secrets on this forum that we can not share,it will go no further than me!! Well us , but we are all very discreet,honest

[batman]

IVANHOE !!!!!!

[Dave B]

I saw an interview recently that Roger Moore gave to Gloria Hunniford, and he said he had enjoyed making the "Ivanhoe" series. The location work was done in California, so he thought of it as his first US series. (The studio work was completed at Elstree.)

As well as "Maverick", Moore also starred in another Warner Brothers series called "The Alaskans".

I've seen an earlier interview that Roger Moore gave, in which he reckoned "Ivanhoe" was a lost series. But, in fact, pretty well the entire series is available on the trading market.

[silverwhistle]

I don't recall the Moore version: it was the Eric Flynn one I saw as a kid.

[batman]

Eric Flynn ... what a great name ... and he's Jerome Flynn's Dad!

[silverwhistle]

I have the Anthony Andrews and Steven Waddington versions.

[earlb]

Hi Jacqueline, Have just seen your post about Paddy Ryan. If your brother Phil's email address is still active I've just sent him an email about your dad.

[silverwhistle]

Have now got the 1952 Ivanhoe DVD: yes, it is excellent in visual quality. I also got the soundtrack CD. I was interested that Rozsa used some real mediæval music in the score: I recognised Ja nuls om pres/Ja nuls hom pris (by Richard I) and Reis glorios, verais lums e clartatz by Guiraut de Bornelh (although Rozsa, in the sleeve notes, describes it as a "Latin hymn": it's in Occitan, and it certainly isn't a hymn, if he'd bothered to read all the words! ;-D).

It's quite an odd adaptation. By omitting Brian de Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders)'s being a member of a religious order (in other film versions, as per the novel, he's a Templar), it reduces the hindrances between him and Rebecca (Liz Taylor). My surgeon friend Elma also shared my amusement at Brian's 'death'. Wilf (Robert Taylor) takes a mighty whack at him with a battle-axe, that should create a massive, chest-crushing wound; but apparently, only the lower point of the axe catches a little bit (judging by the blood on it). (They didn't show Wilf falling flat on his face, which he should have done if he'd missed with such a blow!) All Brian has is a very small injury, high up in the chest, near the shoulder, that doesn't impede his ability to speak. ("I doubt that's even gone in the apex of the lung!" Elma said.) So in this version, although he passes out, there's every chance that he'll get better after the credits, especially if Rebecca comes to her senses (as she more or less admits at the end of this version) and patches him up.

[delbert]

Originally Posted by deejayjax Hi David, I've just registered as a member. I've been trying to trackdown a Revion 2 DVD of the 1952 Ivanhoe film and during my internet surfing this domain appeared! My father was a stuntman and doubled for Robert Taylor in this film. I've got a mediaeval pewter plate that was was presented to him (apparently everyone who worked on the set was presented with one). My sons are 10 + 11 and they really want to see their grandfather (whom sadly they never met) in action – falling from the battlements into the moat with an arrow through his chest! Anyway, I'm going off at a tangent here. The question I want to ask is: How do you play a Region 1 DVD in the UK? Thanks Jacqueline Wood

Hi Jacqueline

I understand your Father was Paddy Ryan. As I grew up my Father told me that Paddy was (and I'm not sure how) a relation of ours. Was your Father some how linked to the name Moody, Burke or Lazell?