Paramount's decision to produce "The Knights of the Round Table"
seem to the layman to present Saf the simpler problems with genius could cope. It is prob-that the studio regarded the with comparable assurance. The legends are acceptable, they are they a minimum censorship complications. And the ales afford a straightforward. plot which. should. provoke no great "Then Talbot Jennings began writ-"the: script. For almost a year history, dramatic unity, be-Wil- Uevahility and the Hays office have, one by one, given King Arthur and his ix ights pause. The first Mecislon was on source. After study ug all of the versions of the tales, Sir Thomas Malorys "Morte J'Arthur" was selected as the start-point, with all of Tennyson abandoned except for a single slight incident. Malory, of course, did not "Coming assure smooth sailing Some ex and purgations were required on moral grounds, the wealth of incident neces-ted careful selection, and revisions of unity were compelled. the yarn now stands, it cen-on the Guinevere-Arthur-Lan-triangle, with the unfaithful-the lady handled in a nice course. The story are will the love in-jo, the revolt of Modred and the death of Arthur. Only one cast-Ing has been made thus far—that of Douglas Fairbanks, jun., as Lan-sciot. (Because it is deemed in-candid <dvisable to play Fairbanks as ma-Real ture enough to have a grown son, Galahad will not grow up and the Holy Grail cannot for this reason 5e recovered.) With movie audiences "fo the what they are, Paramount fears the reaction of the customers at the sight of a hand, a chalice and a spear appearing out of nowhere before Percival, and so the cycle of the Grail has been minimized.
The problem of period perplexed producers, Politically, the acwill take place in the sixth century, for the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Picts and Scots are used as the villains. Because of the necessity of costume standards, pictorially the film will be of the twelfth century, There are several reasons for this discrepancy. Little is known about sixth-century Britain, and it is impossible to secure authentic designs for all dresses.
Photographically, the religious customs of British Christianity under Rome are more desirable than those of the Celtic church. Malory, writing in the fifteenth century, also has influenced the tale, for he was guilty of anachronistic expressions.
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