Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
Ivanhoe is a great romantic adventure, mounted extravagantly, crammed with action, and emerges as a spectacular feast.
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Bosley Crowther, New York Times
As Ivanhoe, Robert Taylor does a good, sturdy, manly job and George Sanders is intriguingly fluid as the emotionally torn De Bois-Guilbert.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
Luxe MGM historical ransacking, locationed to the nines, beautiful to look upon, but with energy lapses in the soggy script of Sir Walter Scott's epic classic.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
By standrads of the 1950s, this is a passably entertaining period adventure, representing Hollywood's effort to fight the competition from the new and threatening medium of TV.
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, Time Out
The dialogue and script are fatuously Americanised from Scott's original, but these chivalric Hollywood sagas still have a strange poetic quality about them.
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Cast
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Robert Tayloras Ivanhoe -
Elizabeth Tayloras Rebecca -
Joan Fontaineas Lady Rowena
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George Sandersas Sir Brian Bois-de-Guilbert -
Emlyn Williamsas Wamba (Ivanhoe's squire) -
Robert Douglasas Sir Hugh de Bracy

