Excalibur
February 20 / 7:30 pm
Starring Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, & Nicholas Clay
Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.
The initial fight scene had to be filmed three times. It was filmed at night, and all of the film came out underexposed the first two times, due to a fault in the exposure meter. The cameraman had a nervous breakdown over the issue and quit.
Dame Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson were initially reluctant to work with each other. They’d been in a disastrous production of “Macbeth”, and were not on speaking terms. Writer, producer, and director Sir John Boorman cast them because their natural animosity would be perfect. According to Mirren, she and Williamson “wound up becoming very good friends” during filming.
The black smoke in Arthur’s first siege on a castle was created by burning tires. It left black flakes on a nearby town.
Excalibur
Friday ONLY!
February 20th, 7:30PM
1981 | PG | 2 Hr. 20 Min.