Ivanhoe (1952 film)

Ivanhoe
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRichard Thorpe
Screenplay byAeneas MacKenzie
Noel Langley
Marguerite Roberts
Based onIvanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
Produced byPandro S. Berman
StarringRobert Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Joan Fontaine
George Sanders
Emlyn Williams
CinematographyFreddie Young
Edited byFrank Clarke
Music byMiklós Rózsa
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • July 31, 1952 (1952-07-31) (United States)
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Running time
107 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3,842,000[2]
Box office$10,878,000[2]

Ivanhoe is a 1952 British-American historical adventure epic film directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was shot in Technicolor, with a cast featuring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Finlay Currie, and Felix Aylmer. The screenplay is written by Æneas MacKenzie, Marguerite Roberts, and Noel Langley, based on the 1819 historical novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.

The film was the first in what turned out to be an unofficial trilogy made by the same director, producer, and star (Robert Taylor). The others were Knights of the Round Table (1953) and The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955). All three were made at MGM-British Studios at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, near London.

In 1951, the year of production, one of the screenwriters, Marguerite Roberts, was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and MGM received permission from the Screen Writers Guild to remove her credit from the film, which has since been restored.

  1. ^ Ivanhoe at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.