THE BLACK SHIELD OF FALSWORTH
/ (Universal-International) Be Pont jump to the conclusion that The Black Shieid (director, Rudolph | Mate) is just another case of Yankees at the Technicolored Court of King Arthur, It isnt. This time it’s the court of Henry IV, Part Il (Henry, whom we meet early in the piece, is noticeably past the stage at which he would rouse any enthusiasm in a life-insurance salesman, and Prince Hal is obviously warming up). Around the throne gather the schemers, led by the Urb of Albyn (David Farrar), undefeated jousting champ of Ali England and a plus-two man with a battleaxe; and the goodies who (if you exclude Hal, who is only pretending, at great personal inconvenierice, to be a drunken sot), are led by the Url of Mackworth (Hetb. Marshall, in a marcelled beard). Into this whirlpool of conflicting ambitions comes a simple lad, Tony Curtis, whose only claims to notoriety are strong arms and an aristocratic shortness ot temper which is always landing him "in the soup’=-to use the quaint idiom of the time. He enlists in the Mackworth light infantry, but before you can say ‘"In-out-on guard" he’s gotten himself a commission in the armoured corps and bought a fight with the perfidious Albyn. And who is this mysterious lad who gives Albyn a lance in the pance-who is this champ of champs? Of course you’ve guessedit’s Superknight!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 17
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232THE BLACK SHIELD OF FALSWORTH New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 17
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