Mead Public Library (Sheboygan)

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Excalibur [videorecording] / [an] Orion Pictures release ; directed and produced by John Boorman ; screenplay by Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [1999]

Copyright Date

Description:

1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

The classic saga of King Arthur and those around him in the Court-- the knights, his Queen, and the wizard Merlin. Focuses on the rise of Christian civilization out of the Dark Ages.

Audience

Intended audience: Adult.

MPAA rating: R.

Contents

Special features: Widescreen version presented in a "matted" format -- Interactive menus -- Production notes -- Theatrical trailer -- Scene access -- Language: English, French -- Subtitles: English, French.

Cast

Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey and Nicol Williamson, et al.

Notes:

Adapted from Malory's Le morte d'Arthur by Rospo Pallenberg.

Originally produced as a motion picture, c1981 by Warner Bros.

Special features: Feature-length commentary by director John Boorman ; production notes ; theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Alex Thomson ; editor, John Merritt ; music, Trevor Jones ; executive producers, Edgar F. Gross and Robert A. Eisenstein ; production designer, Tony Pratt ; costume designer, Bob Ringwood.

DVD (dual-layer), widescreen presentation; Dolby surround 5.1, mono. (French).

Dialogue in English with optional French soundtrack, and optional subtitles in English and French.

Closed-captioned.

Subjects:

Arthurian romances -- Drama.

Knights and knighthood -- Drama.

Europe -- History -- 392-814 -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fantasy films.

Action and adventure films.

Fiction films.