Word: lionhearted
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Such insights help tide them over some of life's disappointments. Certainly the Crusades, which have consumed nearly 20 years of the pair's life when the film opens, were not all they should have been, and when the mad, majestic Richard Lionheart finally dies, Robin and Little John leave France with no regrets, riding north for England and Sherwood Forest. There, everything seems familiar. Robin and Little John come upon Friar Tuck and Will Scarlett, who are hunting deer in the forest. Now Richard's brother John is King, and their old adversary, the sheriff, still...
THEATRE OF BLOOD is the giddy tale of a sugar-cured Shakespearean actor named Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) who sets out to eliminate the London critics who have mocked and vilified him during his career. He kills each of them in a quite elaborate and grisly fashion, every slaughter based on a scenario provided by the Bard: one hapless critic, for example, has his heart cut out (the pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice), another is stabbed to death on the Ides of March. Worst torture of all, perhaps, is that the poor struggling wretches must listen...
...Thant is not an entirely satisfactory substitute for the empire of Victoria, but the British press, starved for tales of British valor in distant places, splashed Lawson of Leopoldville all over the front pages. Henceforth, trumpeted the Daily Express, he would be "known to the world as Dick the Lionheart...
Captain McGregor (Gary Cooper) is a hardbitten, warm-hearted soldier. Lieut. Forsythe (Franchot Tone) is a flip Oxonian, with good manners and a lionheart. Lieut. Stone (Richard Cromwell) is the tenderfoot son of the stern regimental commander (Sir Guy Standing). The three engage in sport and pleasant banter until a rascally potentate kidnaps young Stone and the other two attempt to rescue him. When the potentate puts lighted bamboo splinters under McGregor's finger nails, he makes a face but tells no secrets. Neither does Forsythe, but flabby Stone despicably reveals the whereabouts of a British ammunition train...