Knighthood in Flower in CinemaScope - Chalk up merrie olde englande as a spot that may soon replace the wilds of Wyoming as the center of celluloid popularity. Hollywood recently has dished out alongside a steady diet of westerns, “Ivanhoe ,” “Knights of the Round Table ," and now “Prince Valiant,” which in CinemaScope gains its play at the Colonial Theater this week. The ingredients are clear. Knighthoods staples will be a technicolored tournament, a chase through the woods, a villainous Black Knight, the storming of a castle, a fair young maiden with lengthy gilded locks, the jester's tricks before a banquet, some bowman, much horsemen and a few rounds of fisticuffs on over-hanging cliffs...

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