Fresh
Ivanhoe is a great romantic adventure, mounted extravagantly, crammed with action, and emerges as a spectacular feast.
Variety Staff, Variety
Ivanhoe
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1952 · 1h 46m · APPROVED
Adventure, History, Romance
Directed by
Richard Thorpe
Overview
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
Director and cast
- Richard Thorpe Director
- Robert Taylor as Ivanhoe
- Elizabeth Taylor as Rebecca
- Joan Fontaine as Rowena
- George Sanders as De Bois-Guilbert
- Emlyn Williams as Wamba
- Robert Douglas as Sir Hugh De Bracy
- Finlay Currie as Cedric
- Felix Aylmer as Isaac
- Francis de Wolff as Front De Boeuf
- Norman Wooland as King Richard
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
79%
Tomatometer
Fresh
As Ivanhoe, Robert Taylor does a good, sturdy, manly job and George Sanders is intriguingly fluid as the emotionally torn De Bois-Guilbert.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
The dialogue and script are fatuously Americanised from Scott's original, but these chivalric Hollywood sagas still have a strange poetic quality about them.
Time Out
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