Prince Valiant is a 1954 American swashbuckler adventure film directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Robert L. Jacks, in Technicolor and Cinemascope
Usurper Sligon, a worshipper of the old Norse god pantheon, and other rebel Vikings have forced into exile the Christian royal family of the Viking kingdom of Scandia: King Aguar, his wife, and their son, Prince Valiant. The family comes under King Arthur's protection. After having grown to become a man, Valiant is sent to Camelot to train under the tutelage of Aguar's family friend, a knight of the Round Table, Sir Gawain.
During his wanderings, Valiant witnesses a clandestine meeting between some of Sligon's Vikings and a black-clad knight. Valiant is discovered, but eludes his pursuers and runs into Sir Gawain. Gawain takes Valiant to King Arthur, who decrees that Valiant shall become a knight by undergoing a squire's training. One of Arthur's knights, Sir Brack, offers to take him on, but Valiant is instead made squire to Sir Gawain.
Brack offers to take Valiant to the place where the prince has seen the Black Knight, someone known only by rumor in Camelot, in order to backtrack him. Once there, they separate, and Valiant is ambushed by bowmen. He escapes with an arrow in his back, stumbles into the territory of King Luke and is taken in by his daughters, Aleta and Ilene. Aleta and Valiant fall in love, but Luke disapproves of Valiant's Viking origin so their relationship must remain a secret. Meanwhile, Ilene is attracted to Gawain. Back at Camelot, Valiant discovers that, while searching for him, Gawain ran into an ambush by the Black Knight and barely survived it. Noting that Brack had disappeared around the same time, Valiant becomes suspicious.
Starring James Mason
Janet Leigh
Robert Wagner
Debra Paget
Sterling Hayden
Victor McLaglen
Donald Crisp
Brian Aherne
Barry Jones
Spoken languages: English
Subtitles: Danish,Swedish,Norwegian,Finnish
