Prince Valiant (1997)

Director:

Anthony Hickox

Writers:

Hal Foster (comic strip), Michael Frost Beckner (story), Anthony Hickox, Carsten H.W. Lorenz

Stars:

Stephen Moyer, Katherine Heigl, Thomas Kretschmann, Edward Fox, Udo Kier, Joanna Lumley, Ron Perlman, Warwick Davis, Zach Galligan, Marcus Schenkenberg

In this drama based on Hal Foster's long-running comic strip, Prince Valiant and his cohorts engage in medieval adventure and romance.

The story is based on the myth of King Arthur. A young, inexperienced squire Valiant, masquerading as Sir Gawain, is sent to accompany the Welsh princess Lady Ilene, a guest at Camelot, on her way back home. Little does he know that meanwhile, Arthur's wicked sister Morgan has retrieved a spellbook from Merlin's tomb and convinced the Viking warlord Sligon, ruler of the kingdom of Thule, to steal the magical sword Excalibur during a joust tournament.

Valiant and the princess become part of the struggle of "he who holds the sword rules the world" which leads them both to love and Valiant to his princely destiny, as it turns out he is the rightful heir to the throne of Thule. The usurper is killed by his also evil brother Thagnar. During the final confrontation, with the help of Thule's ruler Boltar, Morgan is destroyed, Thagnar is slain, and Valiant rescues the princess and recovers Excalibur.

The movie was re-cut by the German producers, while the director was away on Christmas vacation. They wouldn't fly him back to Germany to finish the film. Four key scenes setting up its humorous tone and all religious aspects were removed.

The Telegraph included it among top ten Arthurian films in 2014

Region 0 (ALL), will play in any DVD player, English, 91 minutes, color, Constantin Film, very good print

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Rare Find

Posted by Dan on Dec 25th 2022

High quality disc of a rare film
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Hard to GET

Posted by Howard on Aug 27th 2018

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Prince Valiant (1997) DVD

Posted by Unknown on Jun 21st 2018

Wonderful video/movie, DVD in great shape. Good case and packaging. Every happy with this hard to find English version. Thank you Zues for the service.
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Prince Valiant a must see movie

Posted by Gerald Wooten on Mar 10th 2018

Great movie. DVD in excellent shape. Case and packaging also top notch. Only complaint I have is sometimes background music overtook conversations. I had looked for this movie for a long time and was pleased to find it on Zues. Now if I could just find Humanoid defender aka Joe & the colonel on dvd
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very pleased

Posted by Unknown on Mar 7th 2016

Being able to find someone selling an English version of this on DVD was amazing and the wait was only a couple weeks.well worth it.