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The Crusades (film)

The Crusades
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Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by Cecil B. DeMille
Henry Herzbrun (executive producer)
Written by Harold Lamb
Waldemar Young
Dudley Nichols
Starring Loretta Young
Henry Wilcoxon
Ian Keith
C. Aubrey Smith
Katherine DeMille
Joseph Schildkraut
Alan Hale
C. Henry Gordon
George Barbier
Montagu Love
Ramsay Hill
Lumsden Hare
Maurice Murphy
William Farnum
Hobart Bosworth
Pedro de Córdoba
Mischa Auer
Albert Conti
Sven Hugo Borg
Paul Sotoff
Fred Malatesta
Hans von Twardowski
Anna Demetrio
Perry Askam
Vallejo Gantner
Cinematography Victor Milner
Edited by Anne Bauchens
Distributed by Paramount Pictures (original)
Universal Studios (current)
Release date
August 21, 1935
Running time
125 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1,376,260
Box office $1.7 million

The Crusades is a 1935 American historical adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and originally released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Loretta Young as Berengaria of Navarre and Henry Wilcoxon as Richard I of England. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Victor Milner) as well as for Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival in 1935.

The film takes many of its elements and main characters from the Third Crusade, which was prompted by the Saracen capture of Jerusalem and the crusader states in the Holy Land in A.D. 1187. The character of King Richard the Lionheart is established early as a man of action but little thought. A hermit arrives preaching a great Crusade to bring Jerusalem back into Christian hands. Richard enlists in order, cynically, to get out of an arranged betrothal to Princess Alice of France. A plot is laid against Richard's life by his brother Prince John and Conrad, Marquis of Montferrat. En route to the war, Richard meets Berengaria, Princess of Navarre and—again cynically—marries her in exchange for food for his men. Berengaria accompanies Richard to the Holy Land.


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