Gawain and the Green Knight (film)
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Gawain and the Green Knight is a 1973 film directed by Stephen Weeks, and starring Murray Head as Gawain and Nigel Green in his final theatrical film as the Green Knight.[1][2] The story is based on the medieval English tale Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and also Yvain, the Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes and the tale of Sir Gareth in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.[3]
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Directed by | Stephen Weeks |
Written by | Philip M. Breen Stephen Weeks |
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Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
Starring | Murray Head Nigel Green Robert Hardy |
Cinematography | Ian Wilson |
Edited by | John Shirley |
Music by | Ron Goodwin |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Locations used included castles at Cardiff, Caerphilly and Castell Coch, Wales; Peckforton castle, Cheshire; and St Michael's Mount and Roche Rock, Cornwall. St. Govan's chapel on the Pembrokeshire coast was also featured.
Weeks remade the film in 1984 as Sword of the Valiant with Miles O'Keeffe and Sean Connery as Gawain and the Green Knight, respectively.