| First Knight | |
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| Directed by | Jerry Zucker |
| Screenplay by | William Nicholson |
| Story by | Lorne Cameron David Hoselton William Nicholson |
| Produced by | Hunt Lowry Jerry Zucker |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Adam Greenberg |
| Edited by | Walter Murch |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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Running time | 134 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $55 million |
| Box office | $127.6 million |
First Knight is a 1995 medieval historical drama film based on Arthurian legend, directed by Jerry Zucker. It stars Sean Connery as King Arthur, Richard Gere as Lancelot, Julia Ormond as Guinevere and Ben Cross as Malagant.
The film follows the rogue Lancelot's romance with Lady Guinevere of Leonesse, who is to marry King Arthur of Camelot, while the land is threatened by the renegade knight Malagant. The film is noteworthy within Arthurian cinema for its absence of magical elements, its drawing on the material of Chrétien de Troyes for plot elements and the substantial age difference between Arthur and Guinevere.[1]
- ^ Aronstein, Susan (September 2005). Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-6649-0.