Legend Details

Best known as the movie that was filming at Pinewood when the James Bond stage burned down, this is probably one of the few films on director Ridley Scott's CV that he would prefer to forget. It's a daft fairy tale filled with all manner of goblins, elves and pixies, as well as Tom Cruise as a young peasant who falls in love with Princess Lili (Mia Sara). He takes her to see the last surviving unicorns, little knowing that the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) has his own evil plan for the mythical creatures. Curry prancing around with horns and yellow eyes is certainly the best thing in the film, which surprisingly did nothing to dim Cruise's rising star and it was only four short years later that he received an Oscar nomination for Born on the Fourth of July.

"...Exhilarating visual elements....It is a fairy-tale produced on a grand scale, a classic tale of the struggle between darkness and light, good and evil..."