King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (円卓の騎士物語 燃えろアーサー, Entaku no Kishi Monogatari Moero Āsā?, lit. Story of the Knights of the Round Table: Blazing Arthur) is a Japanese anime series based on the Arthurian legend. Produced by Toei Animation, it consisted of 30 half-hour episodes released between September 9, 1979 and March 3, 1980. The series achieved more widespread popularity in its non-English translations.
When Prince Arthur was a baby and his father King Uther ruled Camelot, Lavik, another king who wishes to conquer Camelot, attacked the castle. Arthur is saved by Merlin who sent him to another knight to keep Arthur in a safe place. For many years this knight brought Arthur up as his own son.
At the age of 15 Arthur attended to a tournament with his stepfather. There he could pull the sword Excalibur from a stone. This action proved that Arthur is the legitimate king of England. Finally Arthur's stepfather revealed him his royal lineage.
Since then King Arthur and some subjects began to fight against the wicked King Lavik, who is helped by a witch called Medessa.
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Bugs Bunny, the great animated cartoon star, is the subject of this made-for-DVD documentary short. 'Ruth Clampett' (qv), 'Stan Freberg' (qv) and others speculate on why Bugs Bunny has such an enduring appeal. Part of it is: he can get away with anything. 'Leonard Maltin' (qv) notes that the personality of Bugs Bunny was a collaborative effort. 'Chuck Jones (I)' (qv) calls him a "comic hero." 'Noel Blanc' (qv) (Mel's son) and 'Bill Melendez' (qv) extol the contribution of 'Mel Blanc' (qv), Bugs Bunny's voice. 'Jerry Beck (I)' (qv) tells us that exhibitors were the first sign of Bugs's popularity with audiences: they demanded more Bugs Bunny pictures. 'Joe Dante (I)' (qv) and others note more reasons for Bugs's success: he's smart and he always wins.
Keywords: looney-tunes, reference-to-bugs-bunny
Leonard Maltin: What I find so interesting about Bugs Bunny is that not only wasn't he hatched overnight, but almost every director and writer team and every lead animator at the studio had a crack at this wacky rabbit character, so that by the time Bugs really came to be the character we now know and recognize, he was a collaborative effort. And maybe that's why he was so good.
Chuck Jones: I think that Bugs is different than all of our characters in that he's a comic hero. And in all my films I try to have the feeling that he was put-upon, that he was minding his own business, and really not interested in being an aggressive character, until somebody comes along and tries to do him hurt.
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"Merlin: The Return" is the story of the battle between good and evil. The dark forces of Mordred are pitted against the mythical sorcery of Merlin. Mordred and his mother Morgana have been imprisoned in another world for the past 1500 years while Merlin's magical powers kept them at bay. However, in the present, a scientist accidentally finds the gateway to the other world and is about to release Mordred into 20th Century life. Arthur is reawakened from his slumber and together with Merlin, tries to find a way to stop Mordred from re-entering this world.
Keywords: arthurian-legend, beauty, demonic-possession, electronic-game, future-shock, independent-film, power-lust, stonehenge
Mordred: Give me the sword, or the woman dies.::King Arthur: Then take it.::[He tosses Excalibur straight at Mordred, which pierces through his chest]
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Young Calvin Fuller is pulled into King Arthur's court by Merlin. His mission: to save Camelot. To do this he must overcome the villain known as Lord Belascoe, train to become a knight, and rescue the Princess Katherine whom he has fallen in love with him. Ultimately, He must help Arthur regain his confidence before he can go home.
Keywords: axe-fight, baseball, battle-axe, belch, black-belt, blacksmith, bow-and-arrow, boy, brawl, camelot
Joust Do It.
Calvin Fuller is about to break curfew... by 1500 years.
King Arthur: Camelot rots, and I play at being king. I want her great again.
Calvin Fuller: Look, Your Majesty, I don't want to insult you or anything, but are you nuts? This isn't the castle. This is the real, in-your-face, carjacking, drive-by-shooting, kill-you-for-your-Reeboks street life.
Maya Fuller: I get your room if you get killed.
Calvin Fuller: Let's boogey.
Calvin Fuller: Geez, this always works in the movies!
Calvin Fuller: Lord Elastic!
Calvin Fuller: [to Kane, after the King's announcement that anyone can enter the tournament] That's your cue, professor.
Lord Belasco: Declare my victory!::Princess Katey: Wrong again, dweeb.
Master Kane: [after Calvin gives him a candy bar] You are truly a great knight!
King Arthur: Let all who witness this know: It does not take a sword and stone to make a hero.
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This is the second feature-length film containing classic Warner Brothers cartoons linked together by newly animated footage. It is divided into three parts, all of which are being shown in a theater as part of a film ceremony honoring the classic Looney Tunes characters. Part 1 involves Yosemite Sam's pact with the Devil to exchange his place in Hell with Bugs Bunny, provided that Sam can lure Bugs into sin and then kill him. Part 2 is a parody of TV crime-fighting dramas as Bugs is selected by law-enforcement to find and apprehend gangster Rocky, who has kidnaped Tweety Bird for a ransom. Part 3 is an Academy Awards-like contest in which various classic cartoon shorts are showcased.
Keywords: cartoon-rabbit, character-name-in-title, collection-of-short-films, looney-tunes, looney-tunes-compilation, police-shootout, reference-to-bugs-bunny, repetition-in-title, sequel, surrealism
Here we go again!
Yosemite Sam: Where am I? It sure is powerful warm in here. Is this Dallas?::Satan: No, but you're close.
Bugs Bunny: 'Knighty Knight Bugs' was directed by Friz Freleng. He got an Oscar and I got a carrot.
[Porky has been beaten by gangsters who are after Tweety]::Porky Pig: You talked me in to it.
Yosemite Sam: Any one of you lily livered, bow legged varmints care to slap leather with me? In case any of ya get any idears, ya better know yer dealin' with. I'm the hootiness, tootiness, shootiness, bob tailed wildcat in the west.::[Fires his guns at the ground as they lift him in the air]::Yosemite Sam: I'm the fastest gun north, south, east, aaaaaaand west of the Pecos. I'm the...::Bugs Bunny: Ahhhhhhh shuddup!
Yosemite Sam: Why you! Take him out and roast him at the stake!::Connecticut Rabbit: [Confused] Stake?... Roast?... Me?... [Turns to the audience] Roast me at the stake? That stings. He wouldn't dare!::[Cuts to Bugs tied to a stake]::Connecticut Rabbit: HE'D DARE!
[after missing the usual "left turn at Albuquerque," Bugs finds himself in Camelot, dodging a fire-breathing dragon]::Bugs Bunny: Never again, never *never* again, do I take travel hints from Ray Bradbury! Huh! Him and his short cuts! The *last* time I took Bradbury's advice, I ended up in the 25th century as a Martian monocle... on *Mars* yet! *This* time, I end up in some kinda lizard factory!
Yosemite Sam: Will you shut up, ya loudmouthed dragon?::Bugs Bunny: Oh, as to that, well I can shut up, all right! Any time anybody asks me to shut up, I always shut up! Shutting up is one of my virtues! I'm considered very shutty-uppy in my crowd!::Yosemite Sam: *Shut up shuttin' up!*
[about to be burned at the stake, Bugs pretends to "blot out the sun" using a total eclipse]::Yosemite Sam: Sun, shmun! Roast that critter!::Daffy Duck: [as King Arthur] Listen, buster! Curb thy fat lip, or hie thee to the unemployment office! [Regarding Bugs] Release that noble creature, and give him half my kingdom! And other, uh, monuments!::[Later, after Bugs "brings back the sun" when the eclipse has ended:]::Daffy Duck: Nice trick! Hmm, I don't suppose you'd settle for a quarter of my kingdom? Would ya? Or an eighth? Sixteenths are nice too. Thirty-seconds? [Nods to Sam] I'll throw in a second-hand court magician. After all, a thirty-second of England is easily equal to two blocks in downtown Dallas!
[Daffy, as King Arthur, presides over a jousting tournament from the safety of his royal viewing box]::Daffy Duck: This is the part I really dig about being a king! All those idiots down there hackin' away at each other, hoo hoo! And me safely up here, out of it! Being hacked is not only stupid... it *hurts!* [to the crowd:] Let the tournamen-, uh, the slaughter, begin!
This was the loving...battling...lusty age of King Arthur...the Knights of the Round Table...the fabulous age of Camelot!
All the fiery passions of the lusty age of great kings....beautiful queens.....that heroic age of King Arthur and the gallant Knights of the Round Table!
Guinevere: I should have known better than to trust a Frenchman!
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George Ebenezer Thumb and his wife, Prunhilda, are a medieval, rural, English couple who desperately want a child, and a kindly traveling magician named Ralph K. Merlin uses his powers to give them one - a thumb-sized baby who grows into a tiny knight to serve King Arthur.
Keywords: baby, based-on-fairy-tale, birth, cat, craving, discovering-one-is-pregnant, dog, expectant-father, expectant-mother, fishing
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King Arthur's kingdom and the knights of the Round Table are in the doldrums since the Dark Knight stole the Singing Sword and put it under the protection of a fire-breathing dragon. The king's jester, Bugs Bunny, says only a fool would try to steal it back, so the king orders him to try. The jester boldly enters the Dark Knight's castle, initially catching his adversaries napping, but when the Singing Sword wakes the knight and the dragon, can Bugs complete his mission? He's a clever fool. A moat, portcullis, and catapult all figure in the face off.
Keywords: aloha-oe-song, animal-as-human, arthurian-legend, cartoon-rabbit, castle, catapult, character-name-in-title, court-jester, cowardice, dragon
Sam: Don't sneeze ya stupid dragon, or you'll blow us to the moon!::[Dragon sneezes and the tower "blasts off", headed for the moon]::Sam: Dragons is so stupid.
Bugs Bunny: [as jester] Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck! Only a fool would go after the Singing Sword!::King Arthur: A good idea, *fool*.
Sam: Open that bridge, varmit! Open it, I say! [the drawbridge drops on top of Sam] Close it! Close it! Close it up again! [Drawbridge opens, leaving a flattened Sam] Okay, rabbit, you forced me to use force!
King Arthur: Noble knights of the Round Table, ever since the accursed Black Knight captured our Singing Sword, evil times have befallen us. One of ye knights must recover the Singing Sword...::Sir Osis of Liver: The Black Knight has a fire-breathing dragon!::Sir Loin of Beef: But-but-but... but the Black Knight is invincib-b-ble!::King Arthur: Odds bodkins! Hath the knights of the Round Table turned chicken? [Clucking sounds and feathers flying]
King Arthur: Unless you bring back the Singing Sword, you will be put to the rack, burned at the stake, and beheaded.::Bugs Bunny: Be-be-beheaded? [laughs, then cries]
[Sam's dragon is sneezing]::Sam: Ya crazy, idjit, bedraggled dragon! I warned ya about lettin' your fire get low. Now ya caught cold.
Bugs Bunny: [after Bugs got the Singing Sword, at the Black Knight's castle and home] I wonder why they call this the Swinging Sword? [Swinging Sword performs musical tune Aloha Hu]
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Young Prince Valiant, son of the exiled King of Scandia, journeys to Camelot to become a knight at King Arthur's Round Table. He hopes to help his father reclaim his throne from the pagan usurper Sligon and restore the Christian faith to their homeland. On his journey he stumbles on the mysterious Black Knight plotting with the Viking pretender to overthrow Arthur. Barely escaping with his life, Valiant encounters Sir Gawaine, a friend of his father's who tutors the young Viking in the skills needed to be a knight. Valiant and Gawaine's pupil/mentor relationship is complicated by their romantic involvement with Princess Aleta and her sister Ilene, daughters of a British nobleman. If Valiant is to restore his father's throne and prevent the coup d'etat against Arthur, he must uncover the true identity of the Black Knight.
Keywords: ambush, armor, arthurian-legend, axe-fight, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, based-on-comic-strip, bastard-son, battering-ram, battle
Sir Gawain: You were a young fool. But I was an old fool, which is worse.
Prince Valiant: I called you a traitor when you delivered me into Sligon's hands and now I say it again - traitor!
Sir Gawain: Stop interrupting and I'll tell you what happened. After you left I went out after you. That's when I came upon the Black Knight.::Prince Valiant: You found him?::Sir Gawain: Aye. He was searchin' the wood when I challenged him. We fought and he was good. His lance broke and I outhorsed him. I came in to finish him, when a dozen armed men came charging out at me.::Prince Valiant: They were on foot? Armed with bows?::Sir Gawain: Aye. It was only with luck I escaped through a hail of arrows.::Prince Valiant: So did I!::Sir Gawain: You what?::Prince Valiant: I was set upon by a band of archers, escaped with an arrow in my back.::Sir Gawain: Where was Sir Brack?::Prince Valiant: I don't know. I was nearly captured where he told me to wait for him. Now he says he went back to find me and found no one. Isn't that strange sir?::Sir Gawain: What do you imply?::Prince Valiant: It's hard to put into words, sir, but could it be that he covets King Arthur's throne more than anyone knows?::Sir Gawain: Sir Brack. A foul suspicion, Val. Unworthy of you.::Prince Valiant: Yes, I suppose it is unworthy.::Sir Gawain: Sir Brack may have been born on the wrong side of the blanket, but he's a Knight of the Round Table, sworn to pledge allegiance to our King, and to defend justice, the weak and the helpless.::Prince Valiant: I'm sorry, sir.
Sir Gawain: You turned out to be flinging rocks like any lowborn ruffian. Why I've never been unhorsed by such a scurvy trick!
Sir Gawain: A man does not risk banishment or death in borrowed armor unless the stakes are high.
Princess Aleta: [to Valiant] I hate you! I love you! I'll never marry anyone else!
King Luke: What's wrong with Sir Brack? His blood is as good as Arthur's!::Princess Aleta: And he never lets us forget it as his own father apparently did.
Sir Brack: Traitor is a word that winners give to losers, and you've lost.
Sir Gawain: The truth hurts sometimes, but it's the only thing to build happiness on.
Sir Gawain: If you're King Aguar's son, why did you fling that rock?::Prince Valiant: I thought you were the knight that was after me.::Sir Gawain: What knight?::Prince Valiant: All I saw was his black armor.::Sir Gawain: The Black Knight? You saw him?::Prince Valiant: I near had his lance in my back. Who is he?::Sir Gawain: A ghost.::Prince Valiant: Oh, ghosts don't chase a man in daylight.::Sir Gawain: Right.
We're lifting gold cups
for our King Arthur
Torches burn on the wall
Knights hail our king
Wine splashes in gold cups
We drink your health!
Arthur! You're a wise king
Arthur! You're a just king
We solut you
Bless him God!
Vivat King Arthur! Vivat!
Vivat King Arthur! Vivat!
A power of Camelot
Is in big steel swords
Your hands are solid
Your reason is bright
Arthur! You're a wise king
Arthur! You're a just king
We solut you
Bless him God!
Vivat King Arthur! Vivat!
Vivat King Arthur! Vivat!
Vivat!
Your Majesty!
Queen loves your kind heart
We respect your courage
You are our king
We are your knights
Arthur! You're a wise king
Arthur! You're a just king
We solut you
Bless him God!
Vivat King Arthur! Vivat!
Vivat King Arthur! Vivat!
Vivat!
Your Majesty!
Long ago your name a shadow in my dreams
The white brave still searching
Raining winds fall apart
I believe your heart
Tell me now what you see
Tell me what you feel
Now you're here tell me
Tell me now what you know
Never let me go
Tell me now what you see
Who cries from the hill?
The mist creeps from your eyes
Your banner will promise, let's remember the start
I believe your heart
Tell me now what you know
Never let me go
Tell me what you see
Tell me now what you see
Tell me what you feel
Now you're here, tell me
Tell me now what you know
Never let me go
Tell me now what you see
What power art thou
Who from below
Hast made me rise
Unwillingly and slow
From beds of everlasting snow
See'st thou not how stiff, how stiff
And wondrous old
Far unfit to bear the bitter cold
I can scarcely move
Or draw my breath
I can scarcely move
Or draw my breath
Let me, let me,
Let me freeze again
Let me, let me
Freeze again to death
Let me, let me, let me