Merlin (1998)

Actors: Roger Ashton-Griffiths (actor), Martin Short (actor), Jean Bourne (miscellaneous crew), Lena Headey (actress), Billie Whitelaw (actress), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Isabella Rossellini (actress), Nickolas Grace (actor), Timothy Bateson (actor), Sebastian Roché (actor), Peter Eyre (actor), John McEnery (actor), Peter Bayliss (actor), Peter Woodthorpe (actor), Joseph Mawle (actor),

Plot: The legend of King Arthur, this time, from the perspective of the King's Wizard, Merlin. Merlin is a creature born of pagan magic, living in a world converting to Christianity. Merlin is beside Arthur as he gains Excalibur, builds Camelot and is betrayed by his wife, Guinevere. Merlin and Arthur are both menaced by the plots of Morgan Le Fey, her son by Arthur, Mordred, and their cohorts. Through it all, Merlin tries to keep Arthur from the destructive path set by fate.

Keywords: 5th-century, 6th-century, adventure-hero, arthurian-legend, barbarian, battle, battlefield, betrayal, black-magic, blood-on-snow
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance,
Taglines: The most magical adventure of all time. Imagine a world where dreams come true...and magic is real.

Quotes:

Merlin: How are you Frik?::Frik: Over-worked and under-paid, how terribly sweet of you to inquire.

Merlin: It's a lovely story. And so are you.

Merlin: They say that when you're unhappy, time crawls by. When you're happy, however... my childhood must have been very happy.

Morgan: Mordred, never be rude! Being rude is weak.

Mordred: Why didn't you kill him, Auntie Mab?::Queen Mab: Because that's what he wanted me to do.

Merlin: You killed her.::Queen Mab: No, I didn't. I only let her die.

Ambrosia: And you can tell Her Royal High and Mighty Queen Mab that magic or no magic, if she harms you in any way, I'll have her guts for my boot laces.

Mordred: Die, dear Auntie Mab? That's the last thing I shall do.

Queen Mab: Don't die!::Mordred: Die? That is the last thing I shall do.::[dies]::Queen Mab: No... [roars]

Lady of the Lake: It's human to make mistakes Merlin, and part of you is human, the best part.

Quest for Camelot (1998)

Actors: Don Rickles (actor), Al Roker (actor), Pierce Brosnan (actor), Gary Oldman (actor), Bronson Pinchot (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Jack Angel (actor), Paul Eiding (actor), Cary Elwes (actor), Rodger Bumpass (actor), John Gielgud (actor), Gabriel Byrne (actor), Jess Harnell (actor), Eric Idle (actor), Frank Welker (actor),

Plot: During the times of King Arthur, the story of an adventurous brave girl, named Kayley, whose father, a Knight of the Round Table, is killed by Sir Ruber, a maniacal brute who steals Excalibur and ultimately threatens to seize King Arthur's Camelot. Kayley enlists the blind, reclusive knight-aspirant Garrett and a young blind hermit and a goofy two headed dragon to brave the Enchanted Forest and retrieve the magic sword, and their adventure is also of course fraught with danger.

Keywords: adventurer, ambush, animal-human-communication, attack, axe, based-on-novel, battle, battlefield, black-magic, blame
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical,
Taglines: Devon & Cornwall: A two-headed dragon with an identity crisis. Garrett & Kayley: A noble warrior and a brave girl find the magical sword. Bladebeak: A fearful chicken runs afowl. Ruber: An evil knight gives nobility a bad name.

Quotes:

Bladebeak: You've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel - clucky? Well, do ya... punk?

[Trying to start a fire with two sticks]::Cornwall: Come on, baby, light my fire...::Devon: You know, there's nothing more pathetic than a flame-retarded dragon.

Devon: Anyway, cheer up. When we get to Camelot, we'll be kissed by the world's most beautiful women.::Cornwall: Yeah, we're a giant talking lizard with two heads. We're gonna have to beat them off with a stick.

Devon: Enchanté, mademoiselle. I'm Devon, and this growth on my neck is Cornwall.::Cornwall: But you can call me Corny for short.

Cornwall: Eh, you're better off without him. He walks funny. He even looks funny. People'd throw darts at him.::Devon: How can you be so cold-blooded?::Cornwall: I'm a reptile.

Kayley: Are you *sure* this is dragon country? I mean, shouldn't there be a sign or something? It could say, 'Welcome to Dragon Country.'... You don't think we'll *see* any... do you?... Is a group of dragons a pack or a flock? Is it a gaggle or a pride? Is it a herd?::Garrett: Quiet.::Kayley: Do you hear something?::Garrett: No, I just want you to be quiet.

Bladebeak: Dragon a la king. It's such a pleasant change from - -chicken?

Garrett: What are you?::Devon: Frankly, we're the reason cousins shouldn't marry.

Kayley: You *saved* my life! Thank you!::Garrett: Well, everyone makes mistakes sometimes.::Kayley: Oh, I get it. This is where King Arthur sends his unfunny jesters, right?::Garrett: And now I'll thank you...::Kayley: For what?::Garrett: For reminding me why I'm a hermit. Good day!

Garrett: [singing] I know the sound of each rock and stone./ I embrace what others fear./ You are not to roam in this forgotten place./ Just the likes of me are welcome here./ Everything breathes and I know each breath./ For me it means life, for others it's death/ Perfectly balanced,/ Perfectly planned,/ More than enough for this man.

King Lear: A Critical Guide (1997)

Actors: Graham McTavish (actor), Chris Gormlie (editor), Brian Blessed (actor), Bob Carruthers (producer), Paul Farrer (composer), Hildegard Neil (actress), Vanessa Tovell (producer), Gary Russell (producer), Robert Whelan (actor), Iain Stuart Robertson (actor), Peter Balderstone (actor), Phillipa Peak (actress), Gavin Bott (miscellaneous crew), Stanley Wells (actor), Jason Riddington (actor),

Genres: Documentary, Short,

Kung Lear (1997)

Actors: Keve Hjelm (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Thomas Roos (actor), Anna Eklund (actress), Anders Andersson (actor), Kjell Tovle (actor), Gudmar Klöving (actor), Pär Milstam (actor), Carlo Schmidt (actor), Michael Meschke (actor), Maria Eggers (actress), Peter Oskarson (director), Annika Brunsten (actress), Tilde Björfors (actress), Josephine Selander (actress),

Genres: ,

King Lear (1983)

Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Leo McKern (actor), John Hurt (actor), Colin Blakely (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Diana Rigg (actress), Brian Cox (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Robert Lang (actor), Robert Lindsay (actor), Geoffrey Bateman (actor), William Hobbs (miscellaneous crew), David Threlfall (actor), Jeremy Kemp (actor),

Plot: Lear is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who among them loves him most. While two daughters eagerly toady to him, his one loving daughter, Cordelia, refuses play along with this foolish charade. In a rage, Lear exiles her along with his one loyal aide who dares to stick up for her. This foolish move works to Lear's sorrow as his two remaining daughters cruelly and gradually strip him of his status and possessions until he is rendered an insane hermit attended only by his fool. All the while, the illegitimate son of another lord is plotting his own ambitions while contributing to this tragic tale of ego and familial cruelty.

Keywords: abandonment, ambition, banishment, based-on-play, betrayal, blindness, brother-murders-brother, character-name-in-title, craziness, cruelty
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

King Lear: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Kent: Fellow, I know thee.::Oswald: What dost thou know me for?::Kent: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.

King Lear: You do me wrong to take me out of the grave. Thou art a soul in bliss.

Gloucester: As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.

King Lear: Ay, every inch a king.

King Lear: I know you do not love me, For your sisters have, as I remember, done me wrong. You have some cause; they have not.::Cordelia: No cause, no cause.

Edmund: Now gods, stand up for bastards.

Excalibur (1981)

Actors: Neil Jordan (miscellaneous crew), John Boorman (writer), John Boorman (director), John Boorman (producer), Corin Redgrave (actor), Trevor Jones (composer), Wayne Docksey (miscellaneous crew), Ciarán Hinds (actor), Gabriel Byrne (actor), Helen Mirren (actress), Patrick Stewart (actor), Liam Neeson (actor), Marie McFerran (miscellaneous crew), William Hobbs (miscellaneous crew), Cherie Lunghi (actress),

Plot: The myth of King Arthur brought once again to the screen. Uthur Pendragon is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlin. At his death Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of England. Years later Arthur, Uthur's bastard son draws Excalibur and becomes king. Guided by Merlin, Arthur marries Guenivere and gathers the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur's evil half-sister Morgana sires a son with him, who may prove his downfall.

Keywords: 5th-century, 6th-century, adultery, affection, anger, armor, arthurian-legend, assumed-identity, attraction, axe
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy,
Taglines: No mortal could possess it! No kingdom could command it! Forged by a god. Foretold by a wizard. Found by a king.

Quotes:

Arthur: Now, once more, I must ride with my knights to defend what was, and the dream of what could be.

Merlin: STAND BACK! Be silent! Be still!... That's it... and look upon this moment. Savor it! Rejoice with great gladness! Great gladness! Remember it always, for you are joined by it. You are One, under the stars. Remember it well, then... this night, this great victory. So that in the years ahead, you can say, 'I was there that night, with Arthur, the King!' For it is the doom of men that they forget.

Arthur: Move aside! This is the king's road - and the knights you joined arms against were his very own.::Lancelot: I await the king himself. His knights are in need of training.::Arthur: I am King. And this::[draws the sword]::Arthur: , is Excalibur, sword of kings from the dawn of time. Who are you? What do you seek?::Lancelot: I am Lancelot of the Lake, from across the sea. And I have yet to find a king worthy of my sword.::Arthur: That is a wild boast. You lack a knight's humility!::Lancelot: Not a boast, sir. But a curse. For I have never met my match in joust or duel.::Arthur: Move aside!::Lancelot: I will not. You must retreat, or prove your worth in the test of arms under the eyes of God.::Arthur: Then may He give me the strength to unhorse you. And send you with one blow, back across the sea.::Lancelot: Then come across, sir.

Uther: The sword. You promised me the sword.::Merlin: And you shall have it; but to heal, not to hack. Tomorrow, a truce; we meet at the river.::Uther: Talk. Talk is for lovers, Merlin. I need the sword to be king.

Merlin: Now look, I once stood exposed to the Dragon's Breath so that a man could lie one night with a woman. It took me nine moons to recover. And all for this lunacy called, "love", this mad distemper that strikes down both beggar and king. Never again. Never.

[Arthur has broken Excalibur on Lancelot's chest]::Arthur: Merlin! What have I done?::Merlin: You have broken what could not be broken! Now, hope is broken.::Arthur: My pride broke it. My rage broke it! This excellent knight, who fought with fairness and grace, was meant to win. I used Excalibur to change that verdict. I've lost, for all time, the ancient sword of my fathers, whose power was meant to unite all men... not to serve the vanity of a single man. I am... nothing.

Arthur: Merlin, where are you going?::Merlin: Where do you think? You have a kingdom to rule.::Arthur: But how? I don't know how.::Merlin: You knew how to draw the sword from the stone.::Arthur: That was easy.::Merlin: Was it? I couldn't have done it.

Merlin: It is a lonely life, the way of the necromancer... oh, yes. Lacrimae Mundi - the tears of the world.

Merlin: Remember, there's always something cleverer than yourself.

Merlin: You're not listening... well, your heart is not. Love is deaf as well as blind. That's it.

The Sky's the Limit (1975)

Actors: Richard Arlen (actor), Lloyd Nolan (actor), Pat O'Brien (actor), Robert Sampson (actor), Bill Zuckert (actor), Jeanette Nolan (actress), Ron Miller (producer), Ben Blue (actor), Ike Eisenmann (actor), Alan Hale Jr. (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Chuck Keehne (costume designer), Ben Cooper (actor), Harry Spalding (writer), Norman Bartold (actor),

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family,

King Lear (1971)

Actors: Patrick Magee (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Cyril Cusack (actor), Mogens Skot-Hansen (producer), Paul Scofield (actor), Peter Brook (director), Peter Brook (writer), Jack MacGowran (actor), Alan Webb (actor), Ian Hogg (actor), Anne-Lise Gabold (actress), Irene Worth (actress), Søren Elung Jensen (actor), Kasper Schyberg (editor), Barry Stanton (actor),

Plot: The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's especially galling because he turned over his entire kingdom to them. Paul Scofeld is an ancient, imposing shell of a Lear tormented by his too-long life as well as by daughters he calls "untatural hags." At one point, the king looks his eldest daughter, Goneril (Ireme Worth), straight in the eye and declares, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore, of embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood." These are the troubles not even the best-trained family counselor could ever hope to resolve.

Keywords: banishment, based-on-play, battle, betrayal, blindness, brother, castle, character-name-in-title, court-jester, curse
Genres: Drama,

Korol Lir (1971)

Actors: Dmitri Shostakovich (composer), William Shakespeare (writer), Donatas Banionis (actor), Jüri Järvet (actor), Aleksey Petrenko (actor), Juozas Budraitis (actor), Emmanuil Vitorgan (actor), Vladimir Yemelyanov (actor), Regimantas Adomaitis (actor), Aleksandr Vokach (actor), Grigori Kozintsev (writer), Grigori Kozintsev (director), Roman Gromadsky (actor), Oleg Dal (actor), Leonhard Merzin (actor),

Plot: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, foreign-language-adaptation, shakespeare's-king-lear, tragedy
Genres: Drama,

Man of Conflict (1953)

Actors: Lee Phelps (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), William Shea (editor), Albert Glasser (composer), Robert Carson (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Herbert Heyes (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), John Holland (actor), Frank O'Connor (actor), Richard Reeves (actor), John Agar (actor), Dorothy Patrick (actress), Fay Roope (actor), Chandler House (editor),

Plot: Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has been corrupted by power. In addition, he falls for the daughter of one of his father's poverty-stricken workers.

Keywords: family-company
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A DARING STORY OF LOVE AND INTRIGUE! (original print ad - all caps)