Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1982)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1982
Running Times: 102 mins
Format: colour     35mm      J-D-C Scope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: Dolby

PRODUCTION
Producers: Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan

SCRIPT
Script: Philip M. Breen, Howard C. Penn, Stephen Weeks

DIRECTION
Director: Stephen Weeks

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Freddie Young

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Richard Marden, Barry Peters

MUSIC
Music: Ron Geesin

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Shuna Harwood
Wardrobe Master: Alan Flyng

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Cliff Culley

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Maurice Fowler
Property Master: John Chisholm

LOCATIONS
Locations: Avignon, France

CAST
Thomas Heathcote (armourer)
Miles O'Keeffe (Sir Gawain)
Leigh Lawson (Humphrey)
Trevor Howard (King Arthur)
Sean Connery (The Green Knight)
Emma Sutton (Morgan Le Fay)
Douglas Wilmer (The Black Knight)
Cyrielle Claire (Linet)
Lila Kedrova (Lady of Lyonesse)
John Serret (Priest)
Brian Coburn (Friar Vosper)
Mike Edmonds (Tiny Man)
David Rappaport (Sage)
Ronald Lacey (Oswald)
Peter Cushing (Seneschal)
John Pierce Jones (Sergeant)
James Windsor (1st recruit)
Ric Morgan (2nd recruit)
Peter Mackriel (3rd recruit)
Jerold Wells (1st torturer)
Harry Jones (2nd torturer)
John Rhys-Davies (Baron Fortinbras)
John J. Carney (messenger)
Bruce Lidington (Sir Bertilak)
Wilfrid Brambell (Porter)

PLOT SUMMARY

Gawain, a squire at Camelot, is the only man who will accept the challenge of the Green Knight to play his strange games. King Arthur quickly knights Gawain who is duped by the Green Knight and loses. The Green Knight offers Gawain the chance to live for one more year before facing the consequences and Gawain uses the time to explore the kingdom, trying to solve a life-saving riddle set by Green Knight's.

Weeks attempts to remake his own Gawain and the Green Knight (1973) and makes a complete hash of it. Casting Miles O'Keefe was a major mistake to begin with, but Weeks compounds his error with lacklustre direction, a muddled script and one of the worst scores ever recorded. Not even Sean Connery is enough to save this disaster.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Cannon Film Distributors

Australia
Rating: PG

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG

El caballero verde - Spanish title
Camelot - Der Fluch des goldenen Schwertes - German title
A espada do valente - Spanish title
Legenden om den gröne riddaren - Swedish title
Rohkea ritari - Finnish title
Sword of the Valiant
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Gawain and the Green Knight

REMAKE OF
Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)

arthurian, castles, decapitations, duels, knights, magic, recapitation, remakes, riddles, servants, the supernatural, swords, sword and sorcery, sword fights

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009