The War Lord (1965)

PG11/17/1965History, Drama, War2h 3m
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He Battled Two Empires For The Love Of One Woman.

Overview

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.

Top Billed Cast

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    Charlton Heston

    Chrysagon

  2. Cast 1

    Richard Boone

    Bors

  3. Cast 1

    Rosemary Forsyth

    Bronwyn

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    Maurice Evans

    Priest

  5. Cast 1

    Guy Stockwell

    Draco

  6. Cast 1

    Niall MacGinnis

    Odins

  7. Cast 1

    James Farentino

    Marc

  8. Cast 1

    Henry Wilcoxon

    Frisian Prince

  9. Sammy Ross

    Volc

_**Mediocre medieval tale with Heston, Boone and Rosemary Forsyth**_ In the 11th Century, a knight (Charlton Heston) in the service of the duke of Normandy ventures to a village on the northern coast of France to finish and inhabit a castle-like fortress for defense against the raiding Frisians from further up the coast (which, today, would be Netherlands & Germany). Richard Boone plays the lord’s right-hand man, Guy Stockwell his brother, Maurice Evans a priest and Rosemary Forsyth a peasant girl. “The War Lord” (1965) is a deservedly forgotten Heston adventure of the Middle Ages...

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