The Crusades

  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • History
  • War
8/21/1935
125

The Flaming chapters of one woman's love, trapped by two worlds in terrific conflict!

King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.

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  • Geronimo1967

    It's probably best to start off by saying that this is most certainly not an history lesson. Cecil B. De Mille has used the third crusade as little more than a template for his grand-scale story of Richard the Lion-heart (an efficient Henry Wilcoxon) as he capitalises on this holy quest as an excuse to avoid marrying the ambitious Princess Alice (Katherine de Mille), sister to co-crusader Philip II of France (C. Henry Gordon). En route to Jerusalem, they must provision in Navarre where the shrewd King Sancho (a rather fun George Barbier) sees an opportunity to offload his beautiful daughter Berengaria (Loretta Young) in return for victualling the army... We know that Richard and Berengaria were really in love, and for the rest of the film D...

    June 19, 2022

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