Three-sheet poster from the film Prince Valiant (1954).

Title

Three-sheet poster from the film Prince Valiant (1954).

Contributor

Alan Lupack
Barbara Tepa Lupack

Date

1954

Description

Prince Valiant (20th Century Fox, 1954). Three Sheet (41" X 81").

Subject

Camelot (legendary place)

Extent

1 poster

Type

StillImage

Language

eng

Is Part Of

Collection of Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack. (Privately held)

Format

jpg

Rights

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Access Rights

Collection of Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack. (Privately held)

Bibliographic Citation

Adventure. Starring James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Sterling Hayden, Victor McLaglen, Donald Crisp, and Brian Aherne. Directed by Henry Hathaway.

Source

Collection of Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack. (Privately held)

Genre

Movie posters

Location

Collection of Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack. (Privately held)

Form

electronic

Label text

Created by Harold R. (Hal) Foster (1892-1982) and appearing since 1937 in the weekly comic strip Prince Valiant, Valiant is an exiled prince who becomes Gawain’s squire and eventually earns knighthood. Foster’s Valiant, who engages in adventures all over the world, even in the Americas, has been the subject of numerous books, games, toys, an animated television series (The Legend of Prince Valiant, 1991), and two movies: Prince Valiant (Twentieth-Century Fox, 1954; dir. Henry Hathaway) and Prince Valiant (Constantin Film, 1997; dir. Anthony Hickox), which was novelized by Martin Delrio. In both films, Valiant regains his kingdom and wins the woman he loves, Alita in the former and Ilene in the latter. In the 1954 version, as in The Black Knight (1954), there is a championing of Christian values as well as echoes of the McCarthy era: one of the evil Vikings, for instance, tries to get Valiant to name the Christian Vikings at the court of the pagan Sligon. In the 1997 film, Valiant recovers Arthur’s Excalibur, which was stolen by the Vikings (not the Singing Sword that is rightfully his, as in the earlier film). The 1997 film is also noteworthy because Morgan le Fay is in league with the Vikings, who capture and kill Gawain. Both films take a comic-strip approach to characters and plot; the later film even uses comic strip images to introduce some of its scenes.

Collection

Visualizing Camelot

Citation

“Three-sheet poster from the film Prince Valiant (1954).,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed April 27, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/8386.

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