Wonderful character development!

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Singing coach for Mr Taylor: Arthur Rosenstein. Archery coach: Colonel John M.T.F. Churchill. Produced by Pandro S. Berman at M-G-M's Elstree Studios in England and on location in Hatfield Woods. Copyright 30 June 1952 by Loew's Inc. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. New York opening at the Radio City Music Hall: 31 July 1952 (ran 8 weeks). U.S. release: 20 February 1953 (sic). U.K. release: 13 September 1952. Australian release: 15 August 1952. 9,595 feet. 106 minutes. (Available on an excellent Warner DVD).NOTES: Nominated for the following prestigious Hollywood awards: Best Picture (won by The Greatest Show On Earth), Color Cinematography (won by The Quiet Man), Music Scoring of a Drama or Comedy (won by High Noon). With gross rentals of $6.3 million, number 4 at U.S./Canadian ticket windows for 1952. The film also took the number 4 position at the U.K. box-office. Perhaps because it was released for the winter-spring school holidays, the movie did far less business in Australia, though it did come in at the latter end of the top fifty box-office successes.COMMENT: The general impression that Ivanhoe is a schoolboy's movie is not borne out by the film itself. Crammed full of violent, exciting action in a fast-paced plot set in motion by a wonderfully dastardly trio of villains - superbly characterized by George Sanders, Robert Douglas and Guy Rolfe - Ivanhoe has been produced on a splendidly lavish scale that often staggers the senses. This is not to say that the actors are overwhelmed by pageant and panoply (though they do skilfully stand aside whilst hundreds of stuntmen do yeomen service in the many battle and siege scenes). True, Robert Taylor sometimes looks a trifle uncomfortable and out-of-place in medieval armor, but this clumsiness is due more to Thorpe's lack of competence in camera placement than to any deficiency of charisma on Taylor's part. Mostly he performs his chores with such dash, we forget his incongruous American accent. It's British-born Elizabeth Taylor who seems to have the wrong voice for the part (though she looks the beauty well enough).

Ivanhoe is a historical novel written by Sir Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The book itself is amazing and there is no need to say anything further about it. This movie on the other hand shows, how Hollywood production was able to cut out, twist and ruin a great story, presenting it in the end as a butchered,naive and twisted movie, such as this one. If you watch only the movie, then you wont know what I am writing about , so I do recommend to read the book, preferably after the movie,because if you do it opposite,maybe you wont have the stomach for the movie. It is a greatest shame,how some main characters were cut out, how story-line doesn't follow anything and mistakes made in the "historical" movie are just unforgivable.

maybe, not the best adaptation. or not the most impressive film for a generation far by the universe of Walter Scott. but one of films who could be inspired choice for the viewer looking the art and flavor and sensitivity of old times. and, maybe, this is the basic virtue of it. to be a trip. in the universe of good novel and to remind the glamour of stars from a lost time. so, Ivanhoe.

Made in 1952 when the studio system under irresistible pressure from television and was in terminal decline and beginning to fall falling apart.Along came Ivanhoe from then top old studio MGM. MGM's version of the old Victorian novel by the Scottish romantic writer Sir Walter Scott (Published In 1820). Is often compared with Warner's 1938 classic Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, and indeed the substance and the subject are indeed very similar.Now i am not going to try to argue that Ivanhoe is the better film clearly to all it is not.However given that Taylor (Robert)is no Flynn (Errol) and most of the supporting cast lack the charisma of the 1938 Warner film on most other considerations, however Ivanhoe compares quite favourably in my opinion.The colour is three strip Technicolour,the music by NIklos Rozna is in every way superb and so very profound in the film. Robert Taylor is very convincing as the heroic noble traditional hero "Ivanhoe", his nemesis played with some panache and some notable grace by that stalwart of Hollywood English rogue-ism by the wonderful George Sanders excels. The castle in the film is a full scale mock up and is very impressive complete with moat.Please look carefully at the stunt men throughout the film all are amazing but one particular fall into a moat from a great height had me quickly reaching for the remote. A personal delight from this movie is poor King John, sorry only a prince, cast as ever in a Hollywood film as lecherous, now here he is played by Guy Rolfe a British actor who worked later mostly on TV and his villainous loathsome sneers are just brilliant. The Freddie Young photography is marvellous and colourful, the action fast and perfectly thoughtless, the film is after all a Hollywood period fantasy. The film does however have it's low points, almost all concerning Elizabeth Taylor, she is dreadful throughout the film. Was she bored, going through a bad patch at the time, whatever but she seems to have no interest in the film or her role and boy does it show.In all, then a very entertaining film from the very last of old Hollywood and as such i believe it is one to savour.