Directed by:
Tay GarnettScreenplay:
Edmund BeloinCinematography:
Ray RennahanComposer:
Victor YoungCast:
Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix, Murvyn Vye, Virginia Field, Henry Wilcoxon, Alan Napier, Frederick Worlock, Frances Morris (more)Plots(1)
Bing Crosby stars in this light and lively musical version of Mark Twain's timeless comedy. Der Bingle is a turn-of-the-century blacksmith who is knocked unconscious only to awaken in sixth-century Camelot.
But thanks to some American know-how, the crooner is quickly hailed as a wiz of a wizard and granted the right to teach Rhonda Fleming, the King's fetching niece, some decidedly contemporary romantic tricks. Alas, there's trouble afoot when Bing locks "magical" horns with the all-powerful Merlin and is challenged to a joust by Sir Lancelot for the hand of the beautiful princess!
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Bing Crosby
USA
Best movies:
The Country Girl (1954)
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
Rhonda Fleming
USA
Best movies:
Spellbound (1945)
Out of the Past (1947)
Pony Express (1953)
Cedric Hardwicke
UK
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Rope (1948)
Richard III (1955)
William Bendix
USA
Best movies:
Detective Story (1951)
The Big Steal (1949)
Lifeboat (1944)
Murvyn Vye
USA
Best movies:
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Pickup (1951)
Golden Earrings (1947)
Virginia Field
UK
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
Henry Wilcoxon
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Alan Napier
UK
Best movies:
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Madame Curie (1943)
Frederick Worlock
UK
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Spartacus (1960)
Madame Curie (1943)
Frances Morris
USA
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Caged (1950)
Conflict (1945)
Lester Dorr
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Richard Webb
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Out of the Past (1947)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Dorothy Phillips
USA
Best movies:
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Father of the Bride (1950)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Charles Coleman
Australia
Best movies:
Captains Courageous (1937)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Love Is News (1937)
Mary Field
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Fred Aldrich
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Harry Wilson
UK
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
Babe London
USA
Best movies:
Go West (1925)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Jimmie Dundee
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
To Each His Own (1946)
Olin Howland
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)