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Camelot on DVD (1967)

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Average rating: 64%
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3.0
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Starring: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries, Laurence Naismith, Estelle Winwood, Gary K. Marshall, Pierre Olaf, Anthony Rogers
Director: Joshua Logan
Studio: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time: 175 mins
Certificate: U
Genres: Music/Musical
Languages: English
Hearing-impaired: English
Subtitles: Arabic, English
Released: 26/07/1999

Brief synopsis of Camelot

A musical adaptation of the legendary King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table. Songs include: 'If Ever I Would Leave You', 'How To Handle A Woman' and 'Then You May Take Me To The Fair'. Music directors include Ken Darby and Alfred Newman. Music and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Edward Carere and Frederick Loewe.

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Rating of 4 stars out of 5 Radio Times

Despite Joshua Logan's stodgy staging, this sumptuous screen version of the Arthurian musical by Lerner and Loewe still pierces the heart in Excalibur fashion. Vanessa Redgrave as Guenevere convincingly enthrals both King Arthur (Richard Harris) and Lancelot (Franco Nero), and us. The stars may not be exactly tuneful, but they compensate for that with their dramatic and moving interpretation of the glorious songs. This ideal world corrupted by passion makes the Sean Connery/Richard Gere rendition First Knight look like little more than a charade.

Rating of 2 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

A film version of a long-running Broadway show with many excellent moments. Unfortunately the director cannot make up his mind whether to go for style or realism, and has chosen actors who cannot sing. The result is cluttered and overlong, with no real se

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Rated - 2 starsDO NOT SEE

A customer from NEWCASTLE , 24/07/2004

Having strained to watch most of this movie i eventually gave in. This is terrible. all the main cast do their best with the material but this musical of one of the finest medeival tales dosen't go anywhere to impress.

i lost interest very quickly. but the snow effects are good and the songs are actually quite nice.

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Rated - 1 starsA bit dated....

A customer from London , 13/06/2006

I enjoyed this very much as a child but watching it again the other day..it looked tinny and dated.The songs are well known but they stretch to rhyme a bit and it is very sentimental.Lancelot is awful!!

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Rated - 5 starsClassic

Ronnee from Brighton , 06/04/2005

What a gem, a classic of the movie musical.

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Rated - 3 starsWonderful begining!

A customer from Cumbria , 21/07/2005

Ive watched this film a few times and without fail love the begining and then get bored and do something else.

Its such a shame because the performance from Richard Harris is truly wonderful.

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Rated - 1 starsA bit dated....

A customer from London , 13/06/2006

I enjoyed this very much as a child but watching it again the other day..it looked tinny and dated.The songs are well known but they stretch to rhyme a bit and it is very sentimental.Lancelot is awful!!

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Rated - 2 starsnot bad

nikki28 from Whitby [Highly rated reviewer] , 11/07/2008

not too bad a film but not great i would say its a rainy day film.

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