Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe (1952)

  • 79% of critics liked it
    (14 reviews)

  • 59% of users liked it
    (4,901 ratings)

Produced by MGM's British facilities, the Technicolor Ivanhoe starred Robert Taylor in the title role. Returning to England from the Third Crusades, Ivanhoe is given a cool but cordial reception by his estranged father Cedric (Finlay Currie), a Saxon who despises the Norman king Richard the… More

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Jul 31, 1952 Wide
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Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Ivanhoe is a great romantic adventure, mounted extravagantly, crammed with action, and emerges as a spectacular feast.

  • , 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.

  • 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.

  • , 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.

  • 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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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Universal D


    Richard the Lionhearted has yet to return from the debacle that was the 3rd Crusade and the Norman hordes in England are not loving the "we were here first, praise Jesus! Mighty, mighty! Amen, amen!!" Saxon crowd in the meantime. Robin of Locksley (the Hood) and his boys… More

  • AJ V


    I wouldn't call this one of the best swashbuckling adventures, as flixster does. It has it's moments, but it isn't too exciting. It's just okay.

  • xGary X


    Robert Taylor stars in this tale of chivalry from the times of yore based on Sir Walter Scott's classic novel. The production design is variable and fight sequences a little unconvincing, but the source material provides an unusually strong story an...(read more)d well-written… More

  • Lukas M


    Not perfect but better than the 1982 version. The MGM Ivanhoe is a good example of the medival swashbucker. Sure, it's not without shortcomings--Athelstane and Ulrica do not appear and Rebecca is tried by Prince John instead of Lucas Beaumanoir--but it's a well-paced movie… More

  • Kyle S


    Epic castle siege scene is enough to check out this swashbuckling adventure, which takes place at the same time Robin Hood's Legend does, Robin Hood actually plays a key part in this film, as does Prince John, and King Richard the Lion-Heart.

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